repercutio Latin · revision 33702

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛ.pɛrˈkʊ.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [re.perˈkut.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''repercutiō''' (present infinitive repercutere, perfect active repercussī, supine repercussum); third (-iō variant) conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|percutiō|t2=to strike]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|percutiō]] is a compound of [[m|la|quatiō|t=to shake]], for which de Vaan reconstructs [[itc-pro|*kwat-i-]]; he compares Germanic words for shaking such as [[goh|scutten|t=to shake]], and thinks it may be a word of non-Indo-European origin.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short find it only from the Augustan age.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil has the trembling light of water in bronze basins reflected by the sun,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Livy valleys that echo the shouting.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to drive back or make rebound: Ovid has a discus bouncing back from the hard earth, Valerius Maximus a rower thrown overboard and hurled back into the ship by a wave, and Seneca a ball returned by the hand and wind turned back by a headland.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of light it is to reflect: Ovid has gems reflecting the sun and an image in water, and Seneca a mirror reflecting the sun.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of sound it is to echo: Curtius has a shout echoed by mountain ridges, and Tacitus voices thrown back by the winding of a mountain.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid also has Medusa's form seen in the reflecting bronze of a shield.^(OLD 2012) Quintilian uses it of turning an argument back on an opponent.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin has “strike or push back, reverberate, re-echo, resound”.^(Stelten 1995) English ''repercuss'' came from its participle in the early 15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of echoing valleys.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of a rebounding discus and reflected sunlight.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian, of retorting an argument.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To drive back, make [[m|en|rebound]], repel; to turn (an argument) back on an opponent.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|reflect]] (light).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To reflect (sound), make [[m|en|echo]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To strike against (a reflecting body).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[irrepercussus]]

+ * [[repercussibilis]]

+ * [[repercussiō]]

+ * [[repercussus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[percutiō]]

+ * [[quatiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}