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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂eh₁s-eh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [aːˈreːs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ārēscō''' (present infinitive ārēscere, perfect active āruī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|āreō|-scō|t1=to be dry]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|āreō]] to [[itc-pro|*ās-ē-|t=to be dry]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂eh₁s-eh₁-|t=to be dry]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it of clothes drying, ''dum mea arescunt'', “while mine dry”;^(Lewis & Short 1879) the TLL finds it from Cato on.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to become dry, to dry up,^(OLD 2012) as of marshy ground in Varro.^(TLL) Of plants it is to wither, and of ripening grain to dry up: Cicero speaks of laurels withering.^(OLD 2012) Of streams and tears it is to cease to flow, to run dry: the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' has the saying that nothing dries more quickly than a tear,^(OLD 2012) and Ovid a spring that could never run dry.^(OLD 2012) Tacitus uses it of water drying up,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and the Vulgate of a river drying up and of men withering like grass.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Church Latin it also means to pine away.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of clothes drying.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of withering laurels.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of a spring that never runs dry.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate, of men withering like grass.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To become [[m|en|dry]], to dry up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of plants: to [[m|en|wither]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) of grain, to dry up.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of streams and tears: to cease to flow, run dry.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|languish]], pine away.^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adārēscō]]

+ * [[exārēscō]]

+ * [[inārēscō]]

+ * [[interārēscō]]

+ * [[obārēscō]]

+ * [[perārescō]]

+ * [[subārescō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[āreō]]

+ * [[āridus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}