sinuo Latin · revision 33347

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsɪ.nu.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsiː.nu.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sinuō''' (present infinitive sinuāre, perfect active sinuāvī, supine sinuātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Silius Italicus scans ''sinu-'' as one long syllable.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sinus|-ō|t1=curve, fold]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs [[m|la|sinus]] as [[itc-pro|*sinu-]], probably connected with [[sq|gji|t=breast]], with no further etymology.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Virgil uses it of the serpent that winds its huge back in coils: ''sinuat immensa volumine terga''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) Lewis & Short think it perhaps not found before the Augustan age.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to bend or curve something, as a flame bent three times into a slanting torch in Propertius,^(OLD 2012) to bend a bow, as in Ovid,^(OLD 2012) and to give a curved shape to features of a landscape, as Ovid's stream bent into curving arcs.^(OLD 2012) Of the wind it is to billow out sails or clothes, as Ovid's garments fluttering in the breeze.^(OLD 2012) It is also to make something move in curves, or to follow a winding course, as a chariot axle in Silius Italicus,^(OLD 2012) and Celsus uses it of fluid that hollows out the sound flesh near it.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short find it most often in the poets.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Church Latin it is to bend, wind, curve or swell.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of a serpent winding its coils.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius, of a curving flame.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of a bent bow and billowing clothes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus, of hollowing out flesh.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|bend]], wind, [[m|en|curve]]; to bend (a bow).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of the wind: to billow out, fill out.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To make move in curves; to follow a winding course.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|hollow]] out, excavate.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exsinuo]]

+ * [[īnsinuō]]

+ * [[sinuātiō]]

+ * [[sinuāmen]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sinuōsē]]

+ * [[sinuōsus]]

+ * [[sinus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}