obmutesco Latin · revision 33324

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=ine-pro *mū̆-to-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɔm.muːˈteːs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ob.muˈtɛs.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''obmūtēscō''' (present infinitive obmūtēscere, perfect active obmūtuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

+ It is often spelled ''omm-'', with the prefix assimilated.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ob-|mūtus|-ēscō|t2=dumb]], formed like [[m|la|obstupēscō]] and [[m|la|obticēscō]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|mūtus]] to [[itc-pro|*mūto-]] and [[ine-pro|*mū̆-to-]], literally one who can say nothing but “mu”.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|मूक|tr=mū́ka-|t=dumb]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest citation in the OLD is Terence's ''Andria'', where the speaker says he was dumbstruck: ''obstipui... obmutui''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to become unable to speak, to become dumb, as in Cicero, who says the tongue of a new pontiff failed him,^(OLD 2012) and to become or remain silent or speechless.^(OLD 2012) Celsus and Pliny the Elder use it of losing the voice through drunkenness or illness, and Pliny of dogs losing their bark.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cornelius Severus uses it of a voice silenced by death, and Cicero, of an abstract subject, of studies that were suddenly silenced.^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it is to be dumb, mute or silent.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, of being struck dumb.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a tongue that failed and of silenced studies.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus, of losing one's speech.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To become [[m|en|dumb]], lose one's speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To become or remain silent or [[m|en|speechless]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of abstract things: to be silenced or suppressed.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mūtēscō]]

+ * [[mūtus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}