erado Latin · revision 33617

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=itc-pro *rasd-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ērādō''' (present infinitive ērādere, perfect active ērāsī, supine ērāsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|rādō|t2=to scrape]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|rādō]] to [[itc-pro|*rasd-e/o-]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[cy|rhathu]] and [[br|rahein|t=to scrape, shave]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Varro on.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) In Varro's work on farming, stubble is to be scraped off the meadows with rakes: ''de pratis stipulam rastellis eradi''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is to remove by scraping or paring, and to scrape something clean or smooth:^(OLD 2012) Propertius has cheeks shaved smooth, and Columella scrapes away moss and pith.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) From this it came to mean erasing writing or an engraved inscription, and striking a name off a list as a mark of disgrace: Suetonius reports that the senate ordered the inscriptions of Domitian to be erased.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that the word is ante-classical and returns from the Augustan period on;^(Lewis & Short 1879) the TLL finds it once each in Horace and Propertius, then in Celsus, Phaedrus and Seneca, and often in Tertullian.^(TLL) In Church Latin it means to destroy, strike out, or cut off.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of scraping stubble from meadows.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius, of cheeks shaved smooth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius, of erasing the inscriptions of Domitian.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1600 – Its participle ''ērāsus'' is the source of English [[m|en|erase]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|scrape]] away, pare off, remove by scraping.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To scrape clean or smooth; to [[m|en|shave]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|erase]], delete (writing or an inscription); to strike a name off a list.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To abolish, [[m|en|eradicate]], remove.^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rādō]]

+ * [[abrādō]]

+ * [[corrādō]]

+ * [[en|erase]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}