insuesco Latin · revision 33799

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *sue(h₁-)dʰh₁-}}

+

+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnsuēscō''' (present infinitive īnsuēscere, perfect active īnsuēvī, supine īnsuētum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|suēscō|t2=to become accustomed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains [[m|la|suēscō]] as an inchoative built on [[ine-pro|*sue(h₁-)dʰh₁-|t=to make one's own, get accustomed]], from [[itc-pro|*swē(þ)-sk-e/o-]], and notes that the compounds are older than the simple verb, which is a back-formation.^(de Vaan 2008)

+

+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Captivi'', with the pluperfect ⟨insueram⟩: “I who had been used to command now obey another's command”.^(OLD 2012)

+

+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Intransitively it is to grow used to something, with an infinitive, a dative or ''ad'': Terence has getting used to lying, Sallust to giving and to love and drink, and Livy to military discipline.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Vitruvius uses it of a vice that should not become ingrained in a city's youth.^(OLD 2012) Transitively it is to accustom someone: Lucretius has growing used to living with someone, Horace says his father accustomed him to avoid vices, and Columella has accustoming a herd to water.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that it is not in Cicero or Caesar.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+

+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of having grown used to command.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, of growing used to lying.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius, in the transitive sense.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace, of a father's training.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+

+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To become [[m|en|accustomed]], grow used (to); to become ingrained.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To accustom, [[m|en|habituate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Word family==

+ * [[insuēfaciō]]

+

+ ==Related words==

+ * [[suēscō]]

+ * [[cōnsuēscō]]

+ * [[īnsuētus]]

+

+ ==Usage notes==

+ The TLL also records a rare ''īnsuēscō'' “to become unaccustomed”, from glosses, back-formed from ''īnsuētus'' “unused”.^(TLL)

+

+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}