liceor Latin · revision 33854

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *lik-ē-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈlɪ.ke.ɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈliː.t͡ʃe.or]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''liceor''' (present infinitive licērī, perfect active licitus sum); second conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*lik-ē-|t=to be available, have the value of]], the stem de Vaan reconstructs for [[m|la|licet|t=it is allowed]], and is the deponent beside [[m|la|liceō|t=to be for sale, fetch a price]];^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) the deponent is explained as “to make oneself available”, hence to offer or bid.^(de Vaan 2008) He finds no certain cognates outside Italic.^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary calls the origin uncertain.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it in the ''Stichus'', where a man with jokes to sell calls on people to bid.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to bid at an auction: Cicero has a man bidding in the speech for Caecina and bidding by raising a finger in the Verrines, and Caesar a man against whom no one dares to bid.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Transitively it is to bid for something, as Cicero writes of Scapula's heirs bidding for gardens, and Persius has bidding a clipped hundred-as piece for a hundred Greeks.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it figuratively, of greedy eyes that set a price on a married woman.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of bidding at a sale.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of bidding at auctions.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of bidding against someone.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of appraising with the eyes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To make a [[m|en|bid]] at an [[m|en|auction]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To bid for, make an offer for.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To [[m|en|appraise]], value.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[licitor]]

+ * [[polliceor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[liceō]]

+ * [[licet]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}