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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁reh₁p-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [eːˈreː.poː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eˈrɛː.po]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ērēpō''' (present infinitive ērēpere, perfect active ērēpsī, supine ērēptum); third conjugation, no passive^(Wiktionary)

+ Horace has the syncopated pluperfect subjunctive ''ērēpsēmus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|rēpō|t1=out|t2=to creep]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces that verb to [[itc-pro|*rēp-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁reh₁p-|t=to creep]] or [[m|ine-pro|*h₁rēp-]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[lt|rėplióti|t=to creep]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) where a character is ordered out: ''i foras, lumbrice, qui sub terra erepsisti modo'', “out with you, you earthworm, who have just crawled out from under the ground”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it pre-classical and then Augustan and later.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It means to creep or crawl out, as in Varro, Silius Italicus and Statius,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and of a slow or stealthy emergence: Seneca writes ''erepsi modo e ruinis domus'', “I have just crept out of the ruins of my house”, and uses it figuratively of money slowly creeping out of poverty.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Upwards, it is to crawl or clamber up, as Lucan's Gyareus, trying to climb onto an allied ship, and in Suetonius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Transitively, Horace has it of creeping up mountains and Juvenal of crawling across a whole field on one's knees.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Statius applies it to a building that rises.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, “crawl out”.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace, of climbing mountains.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of creeping out of ruins.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 39–65 AD – Lucan, “clamber up”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|creep]] or [[m|en|crawl]] out; to emerge slowly or stealthily;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(transitive)'' to crawl across.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To crawl or [[m|en|clamber]] up;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(transitive)'' to climb.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[arrēpō]]

+ * [[dērēpō]]

+ * [[irrēpō]]

+ * [[obrēpō]]

+ * [[perrēpō]]

+ * [[prōrēpō]]

+ * [[rēpō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}