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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈɫaː.bɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈlaː.bor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''relābor''' (present infinitive relābī, perfect active relāpsus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|lābor#1|t1=back|t2=to slip, glide]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The earliest citations are Virgil's wave that draws back its feet as it slides back,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Horace's rivers that could run back up steep mountains.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is mostly poetic.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It means to slip or slide back from a position: in Ovid of sinking back on a couch, of Eurydice as Orpheus turned his eyes, and of sliding down a rope.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of water it means to ebb or recede, as in Curtius, Lucan and Tacitus of the Tiber flood and the tide.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is to relapse into a former state, as Horace slips back into the precepts of Aristippus,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Seneca uses it of passions and vices that return.^(OLD 2012) Stelten gives “slide back, relapse, return” for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of a receding wave.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace, of rivers flowing back and of relapsing into a doctrine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of the Tiber flood going down.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To slip, slide or sink back; to return.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of water, to [[m|en|recede]], [[m|en|ebb]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|relapse]] (into), revert to a former state.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lābor#1]]

+ * [[relāpsus]]

+ * [[en|relapse]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}