evomo Latin · revision 33498

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *uemh1-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈeː.wɔ.moː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɛː.vo.mo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēvomō''' (present infinitive ēvomere, perfect active ēvomuī, supine ēvomitum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|vomō|t1=out|t2=to vomit]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|vomō]] to [[itc-pro|*weme/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*uemh1-|t=to vomit]], a root present that Latin made thematic.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|वमिति|tr=vámiti|t=to vomit, spit out]], [[grc|ἐμέω|tr=eméō|t=to vomit]] and [[lt|vémti|t=to vomit]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan records it from Plautus on.^(de Vaan 2008) The earliest passage the OLD quotes is a line of Ennius' ''Annals'' in which it means to pour out words: ''cui … cuncta malaque et bona dictu evomeret'', “to whom he might spew out everything, bad and good to say”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it Classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Literally it is to vomit up: Cicero has a bird said to vomit up shells once it has digested them,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and the Vulgate uses it in the Book of Jonah.^(Lewis & Short 1879) From the mouth it is also to emit: Virgil's Cacus pours smoke from his jaws.^(OLD 2012) Things discharge too: Vitruvius has flames thrown out around Vesuvius,^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Nile emptying itself into the Egyptian sea,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Columella plants putting forth herbs.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it of the city that has spewed out so great a plague, and of disgorging money that has been swallowed up.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is to give vent to words and feelings, as Terence's ''iram evomere'', to vent one's anger, and Cicero's ''virus acerbitatis suae'', the venom of one's bitterness.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius, of pouring out words.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, of venting anger.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, literal and figurative uses.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of smoke from the mouth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate, in the Book of Jonah.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|vomit]] up, spew out.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To emit from the mouth; of things, to [[m|en|discharge]], throw out; of a river, to empty itself.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|disgorge]], give up (what has been swallowed, as money).^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To give vent to (words, feelings), pour out.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vomō]]

+ * [[vomitus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}