resorbeo Latin · revision 33430

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=la sorbeō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈsɔr.be.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈs̬ɔr.be.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''resorbeō''' (present infinitive resorbēre, perfect active resorbuī, supine resorptum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|sorbeō|t2=to suck up, swallow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|sorbeō]] to [[itc-pro|*sorfeie-]] and [[ine-pro|*srobʰ-eie-|t=to take sips, slurp]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|ῥοφέω|tr=rhophéō|t=to slurp, gulp]], [[lt|sur̃bti|t=to suck]] and [[hit|šarāp-i]] “to sip”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The earliest quotations in the OLD are from Lucretius, who uses it of a magnet that repels and draws back iron and of the sea that sucks back its tide at the foot of a mountain.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its basic sense is to suck back or swallow down again.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Mostly a poetic and post-Augustan word,^(Lewis & Short 1879) it is used above all of the sea drawing back its waves, in Ovid, Virgil and Tacitus,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) and Pliny the Younger describes the sea sucked back on itself and as if driven back by the shaking of the earth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Horace uses it figuratively of a wave that sweeps a man back into war.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Pliny the Elder uses it of a river that withdraws into narrow channels and of crows swallowing their voice,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Quintilian of speakers who draw in their breath with a hiss.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) In Seneca's tragedies, Statius and Silius it means to choke back tears.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of a magnet and of the sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of the sea drawing back stones.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of a wave of war.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of drawing in breath.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius uses it of tears held back.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|absorb]] again, to suck back, [[m|en|swallow]] down again.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of the sea or other things, to draw back into itself; to attract.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|suppress]] tears or the voice by swallowing, to choke back.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sorbeō]]

+ * [[absorbeō]]

+ * [[exsorbeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}