retexo Latin · revision 33683

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *teḱ-s-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈtɛk.soː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈtɛk.so]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''retexō''' (present infinitive retexere, perfect active retexuī, supine retextum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The perfect is ''retexuī''; a perfect ''retexī'' in Manilius is doubtful.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|texō|t2=to weave]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|texō]] to [[itc-pro|*tekse/o-]] and, by preference, [[ine-pro|*teḱ-s-|t=to fashion]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|तक्षति|tr=tákṣati|t=fashions]] and [[hit|takš-zi|t=to devise]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first examples are in Lucretius, of bodies that cannot be broken down, and in Cicero, of a doctrine that, like Penelope unweaving her web, at the end undoes what came before.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its literal sense is to unweave or unravel a web,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and so to break something down gradually.^(OLD 2012) In a letter to Cicero, Matius asks whether he should change what he did as a young man and so unmake himself.^(OLD 2012) It also means to undo what has been done, cancel or reverse it: Cicero says that a praetor seemed less to hold his own office than to unweave his predecessor's.^(OLD 2012) Of words it is to retract, and Horace has a writer reworking everything he has written.^(OLD 2012) Virgil uses it of retracing a course, as warriors complete five circles and retrace as many.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin has it as to unweave, cancel, annul, but also to repeat or relate again.^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius, of bodies being broken down.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of Penelope's web and of undoing a predecessor's acts.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace, of reworking one's writings.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of retracing circles.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|unweave]], [[m|en|unravel]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) to break down gradually.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To undo, cancel, [[m|en|reverse]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) to retract (one's words).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|retrace]] (a course or a story).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To renew, repeat, relate again.^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[texō]]

+ * [[extexō]]

+ * [[tēla]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}