sublabor Latin · revision 33443

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=la lābor}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sublābor''' (present infinitive sublābī, perfect active sublāpsus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sub-|lābor#1|t1=under|t2=to slip, glide]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) De Vaan treats the simple verb with [[m|la|labō|t=to waver]]; he discusses a root meaning “weak” but finds the ablaut ⟨lab-⟩ : ⟨lāb-⟩ hard to explain.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Georges and Conte cite it first from Virgil,^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) who writes ''retrō sublāpsa referrī spēs'', of hope slipping back and fading,^(Conte 2010) and ''prīma luēs ūdō sublāpsa venēnō pertemptat sēnsūs'', “the first infection, creeping in with its moist poison, steals over the senses”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Besides Virgil's “creep in stealthily”,^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) it means to sink or fall down: in Seneca the Elder a body collapses when the breath is cut off,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) and in Seneca unfinished things slip back or give way.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Seneca also uses it of underground rivers that sink away,^(OLD 2012) and of memory slipping away with long neglect.^(Georges 1913) Pliny the Younger writes of buildings fallen into decay with age, ''aedificia vetustāte sublāpsa''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of hope slipping back and of poison creeping in.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of things that sink or slip away.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|creep]] up stealthily, glide in.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To fall to the ground, [[m|en|collapse]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To sink or [[m|en|ebb]] away; to slip back, fade.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To fall into [[m|en|decay]].^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lābor#1]]

+ * [[labō]]

+ * [[collābor]]

+ * [[dēlābor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}