refrigesco Latin · revision 33786

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *sriHǵ-o/es-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''refrīgēscō''' (present infinitive refrīgēscere, perfect active refrīxī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|frīgēscō|t2=to grow cold]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|frīgēscō]] belongs with [[m|la|frīgus|t=cold]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*srīgos-]] and [[ine-pro|*sriHǵ-o/es-|t=frost, bitter cold]], and compares [[grc|ῥῖγος|tr=rhîgos|t=cold]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cato has it first, of wine that should be poured into the jar when it has cooled.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Literally it is to cool down: Lucretius has a blow growing cold in the air, Ovid a wounded heart, and Columella soil.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that the figurative sense is commoner, especially in Cicero: of activities that slow down or come to a halt, and of people who lose their zeal, as Memmius had cooled off after an electoral pact was broken.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Quintilian uses it of a speech that loses its force when its pleasures are put off too long.^(OLD 2012) The TLL records a perfect ⟨refrīguī⟩ beside ⟨refrīxī⟩, and the perfect from Terence on.^(TLL) Stelten gives “grow cold, abate, lose interest, grow stale, fail”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato, of wine cooling.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, the first perfect forms.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a man losing his zeal.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian, of a speech falling flat.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To cool down, grow cold again.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of an activity, to slow down, come to a halt, [[m|en|abate]], [[m|en|flag]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of persons, to lose zeal, cool off.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of a speech, to lose its force, fall flat.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[refrigescentia]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[frīgēscō]]

+ * [[frīgus]]

+ * [[refrīgerō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}