valesco Latin · revision 33348

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *h2ulh1-eh1-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''valēscō''' (present infinitive valēscere, perfect active valuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|valeō|-ēscō|t1=to be strong, be well]], an inchoative.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|valeō]] to [[itc-pro|*wal-ē-]] and [[ine-pro|*h2ulh1-eh1-|t=to be strong]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first author is Lucretius,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) who writes of children drinking the bitter juice of wormwood, deceived but not harmed, and rather restored so that they grow well: ''recreata valescat''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to become sound in health, to grow strong,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and more widely to become powerful or gain ascendancy:^(OLD 2012) Tacitus says that as the Germans grew stronger most of the states took up arms against Rome, and that crimes grow strong by haste and good plans by delay.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it rare and note that Cicero does not use it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ambrose uses it of the juice by which the whole body grows strong.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Church Latin it is to grow strong.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius, of a child restored to health.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of the Germans growing powerful.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 340–397 AD – Ambrose, of the body growing strong.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To grow [[m|en|strong]], acquire strength; to become sound in [[m|en|health]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To become powerful, gain ascendancy, prevail.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[valeō]]

+ * [[convalēscō]]

+ * [[invalēscō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}