persulto Latin · revision 33394

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=itc-pro *sal-je-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɛrˈsʊɫ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [perˈsul.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''persultō''' (present infinitive persultāre, perfect active persultāvī, supine persultātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|saltō|t1=through|t2=to dance, leap]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan lists it, with a first use in Lucretius, among the derivatives of [[m|la|saliō#1|t=to jump]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*sal-je-|t=to jump]] and [[ine-pro|*sh₂l-ie/o-|t=to jump]], though he regards the reconstruction of the root as uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|ἅλλομαι|tr=hállomai|t=to jump]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the TLL give Lucretius as its first author;^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL) the TLL counts one use in him.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short note that it is not used by Cicero or Caesar.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In verse it occurs in Lucretius once, Silius Italicus five times and Avienus four times; in prose Livy has it twice, Seneca twice and Tacitus six times.^(TLL) It means to leap or prance about, as in Livy's two armed men who leapt about as if on solid ground, or to leap over something.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy and Tacitus also use it of troops who range freely over an area or scour it: in Livy a people remember how often the others had ranged unpunished over their land.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca has it of leaping over pools hardened with ice.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it once.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of prancing and of ranging over land.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it six times.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To [[m|en|leap]] or [[m|en|prance]] about;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(transitive)'' to leap or prance over.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To range freely over an area; to [[m|en|scour]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[persultator]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[saltō]]

+ * [[saliō#1]]

+ * [[exsultō]]

+ * [[īnsultō]]

+ * [[resultō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}