adedo Latin · revision 33607

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *h1éd-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈa.dɛ.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈaː.de.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''adedō''' (present infinitive adedere or adēsse, perfect active adēdī, supine adēsum or adēssum or adēstum); third conjugation, irregular alternative forms^(Wiktionary)

+ The participle is ''adēsus'', less correctly ''adessus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

+ Lucan has the contracted ''adest'' for ''adēdit''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|edō#1|t2=to eat]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|edō#1]] to [[itc-pro|*ed-]] and [[ine-pro|*h1éd-|t=to eat]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[osc|edum|t=to eat]], [[grc|ἔδω|tr=édō|t=to eat]], [[hit|ed-]] and [[sga|ithid|t=eats]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations come from Sisenna and Cicero;^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) Cicero has it in a verse translation of the liver of Prometheus, eaten and renewed: ''cum adesum inflatu renovatumst iecur''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to begin to eat, to eat away at or gnaw, as the snakes in Livy that crept out and gnawed the liver of a victim.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is to eat into resources, as Cicero's money not eaten into but abundant, and in poetry to wear down an enemy's strength.^(OLD 2012) Of fire it is to scorch, as in Virgil's door-posts half eaten by flame, and of water to erode, as Horace's stones worn by a river.^(OLD 2012) It also means to eat up entirely and, of fire or of wealth, to consume or squander, as in Tacitus' men who had run through their fortunes.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that finite forms are rare and mostly poetic, and that Cicero's prose does not have them.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 120–67 BC – Sisenna, of grain eaten up.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of Prometheus' liver and of money eaten into.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of door-posts scorched by fire.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of squandered fortunes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To begin to eat, eat away at, [[m|en|nibble]], [[m|en|gnaw]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To eat into (resources); to wear down, exhaust.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of fire: to [[m|en|scorch]]; of water: to [[m|en|erode]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To eat up entirely, consume; to [[m|en|squander]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ambadedō]]

+ * [[ambedō]]

+ * [[comedō]]

+ * [[exedō]]

+ * [[obedō]]

+ * [[peredō]]

+ * [[subedō]]

+ * [[edō#1]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}