demoror Latin · revision 33639

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *morh₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈdeː.mɔ.rɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈdɛː.mo.ror]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēmoror''' (present infinitive dēmorārī, perfect active dēmorātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ Glossaries also have an active ''dēmorō''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|moror|t2=to delay]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Etymonline) [[m|la|moror]] belongs to [[m|la|mora|t=delay]], either as a verb made from that noun or as an old iterative;^(de Vaan 2008) de Vaan traces [[m|la|mora]] to [[itc-pro|*morH-ā-|t=delay]] and [[ine-pro|*morh₂-]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|maraid|t=lasts, remains]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Plautus on;^(TLL) in the ''Epidicus'' someone says “but I talk too long; you have long been kept waiting”, ''diu me estis demorati''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Transitively it is to cause delay to someone, to keep waiting or detain, and to hold up an activity, as in Caesar's march that no enemy hindered or held up.^(OLD 2012) Intransitively it is to linger, stay or delay: in Plautus' ''Rudens'' a woman asks what she will tell the priestess for having stayed so long.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus has a man rise without delay, ''nihil dēmorātus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL counts only a handful of uses in each author, three at most, in Caesar, Virgil, Statius, Gellius and Apuleius.^(TLL) The Digest and the Vulgate use it of staying somewhere for a time;^(Lewis & Short 1879) in Church Latin it is to dwell, abide, linger or delay.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|demur]] (about 1200, “to linger, tarry”) comes from it through Old French ''demorer''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of keeping someone waiting and of lingering.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of holding up a march.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, ''nihil dēmorātus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate, of staying seven days.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1200 – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|demur]], through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|delay]], keep waiting, [[m|en|detain]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) to hold up an activity.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|linger]], stay, tarry;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) to dwell, abide.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[demoratio]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[moror]]

+ * [[mora]]

+ * [[en|demur]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}