depasco Latin · revision 33343

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *peh2-s-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēpāscō''' (present infinitive dēpāscere, perfect active dēpāvī, supine dēpāstum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also used as a deponent, ''dēpāscor, dēpāscī, dēpāstus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|pāscō|t1=down, off|t2=to feed, graze]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|pāscō]] to [[itc-pro|*pā̆ske/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*peh2-s-|t=to protect, herd]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[hit|pahš-|t=to protect]] and [[sa|पाति|tr=pā́ti|t=protects]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest citation in the OLD is Cicero's ''On the Orator'', of people who said that the public lands were being grazed bare by a man's flock: ''depasci agros publicos''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of animals it is to eat up or devour, as Columella's kids that ate up the dewy grass, and to graze down fields.^(OLD 2012) Of the farmer it is to graze one's animals on something: Virgil praises the man who grazes down the rank growth of his crops while the blade is young.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cassiodorus explains the word from beasts that do not tear up grass by the roots but crop its tips.^(TLL) By extension it is to consume or waste, of fire or other agents, as the scorched rocks in Silius Italicus, and of men to lay a country waste.^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it is to feed upon or consume.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of public land grazed by a flock.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of grazing down young crops.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella, of kids eating dewy grass.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius Italicus, of fire and of laying waste.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # Of animals: to eat up, [[m|en|devour]]; to graze down.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|graze]] or pasture (animals) on.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of fire and other agents: to consume, waste; to lay waste.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēpastiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pāscō]]

+ * [[pāstor]]

+ * [[pābulum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}