perdisco Latin · revision 33788

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *di-dḱ-sḱ-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''perdiscō''' (present infinitive perdiscere, perfect active perdidicī); third conjugation, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|discō|t1=thoroughly|t2=to learn]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|discō]] to [[itc-pro|*dikske/o-]] and reconstructs [[ine-pro|*di-dḱ-sḱ-e/o-|t=to take, accept]], with reduplication and an iterative suffix, “to take in repeatedly”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in Plautus and Cato;^(TLL) the ''Truculentus'' opens with ''ad perdiscendum'', “for learning thoroughly”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero uses it most, 21 times by the TLL's count, of learning all the laws of war, of the subject of morals that an orator must master, and of learning to paint a human figure.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Firmicus Maternus and Augustine use it nine times each.^(TLL) Lewis & Short note that it is rare but classical, and that it can mean to learn by heart.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Manuscripts often confuse it with ''discō''.^(TLL) Stelten gives “learn thoroughly”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, the first instance.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of mastering a subject.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To learn thoroughly, master; to learn by heart.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[discō]]

+ * [[ēdiscō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}