stercoro Latin · revision 33577

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *sterḱ-o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈstɛr.kɔ.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈstɛr.ko.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''stercorō''' (present infinitive stercorāre, perfect active stercorāvī, supine stercorātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Cato and Columella also have ''stercerō'', and Martianus Capella reports that the ancients said ''sterceratos agros'', not ''stercoratos''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|stercus|-ō|t1=dung]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|stercus]] to [[itc-pro|*sterkos-]] and [[ine-pro|*sterḱ-o-|t=befoulment, excrement]].^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[br|stroñk|t=excrement]] and [[lt|ter̃šti|t=to soil]], though the vowel does not match.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest citation in the OLD is Cato's work on farming, telling the farmer first to manure a place well with sheep's dung, then to dig it: ''eum locum stercorato primum bene stercore ovillo''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to supply with dung or other fertilizer, to manure:^(OLD 2012) Varro, Cicero in ''On Old Age'', Columella and Pliny the Elder use it of fields and places.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the Digest it seems to mean to clear of excrement, of cleaning latrines.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Columella uses the participle of a heap of muck.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato, of manuring a plot.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, on farming.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, in ''On Old Age''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|manure]], dung, fertilize.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To clear of dung, muck out.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[instercorō]]

+ * [[stercorātiō]]

+ * [[stercorātum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[stercus]]

+ * [[sterquilīnium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}