obsoletus Latin · revision 33825

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɔp.sɔˈɫeː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ob.soˈlɛː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''obsolētus''' (feminine obsolēta, neuter obsolētum, comparative obsolētior, adverb obsolētē); first/second-declension participle^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the participle [[der|la|obsolēscō|t=to wear out, fall into disuse]], used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary analyses that verb as [[m|la|obs-]] and [[m|la|olēscō|t=to grow]],^(Wiktionary) while Etymonline takes it as [[m|la|ob-]] with an extended form of [[m|la|soleō|t=to be accustomed]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler finds it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in the speeches on the agrarian law describes a man in rather shabby clothing, and in the ''Pro Quinctio'' calls a string of insults common and worn out.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of things it is worn out by age or use, and of people dressed in worn clothes, as Nepos and Livy use it;^(OLD 2012) Horace has a shabby, neglected house.^(OLD 2012) From there it means soiled or dingy, as Seneca's hand stained with blood and Suetonius' cloak of a dingy colour.^(OLD 2012) Of words and things it is hackneyed or commonplace: Cicero has a style a little too worn, and Nepos says that the honours of the Roman people had become lavish and cheap.^(OLD 2012) Seneca uses it of names fallen into oblivion.^(OLD 2012) Stelten gives “obsolete, worn out, cast off” for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|obsolete]] comes from it and dates from the 1570s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of shabby clothing and of hackneyed words.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos, of honours grown cheap.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of blood-stained hands and of forgotten names.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1570s – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|obsolete]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Worn out by age or use, [[m|en|dilapidated]]; of people, [[m|en|shabby]], in worn clothes.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Soiled, dirty; of colour, [[m|en|dingy]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of language and the like, [[m|en|hackneyed]], commonplace.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Fallen into disregard or oblivion; out of date.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[obsolēscō]]

+ * [[soleō]]

+ * [[exolēscō]]

+ * [[en|obsolete]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}