convulnero Latin · revision 33873

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Bellum Africum|origins=la vulnus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔnˈwʊɫ.nɛ.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [koɱˈvul.ne.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''convulnerō''' (present infinitive convulnerāre, perfect active convulnerāvī, supine convulnerātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''convolnerō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|vulnerō|t2=to wound]], with the prefix strengthening the verb.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|vulnerō]] is made from [[m|la|vulnus|t=wound]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in the ''Bellum Africum'' and in the elder Seneca, of an army being badly wounded at the first encounter and of many being wounded with javelins.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is used of people and animals, as in Seneca, Curtius' pack animals wounded so they could not follow, and Pliny the Elder of bees.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Celsus uses it of cutting the edge of a wound with a hook, Columella of damaging a vine bud in pruning, and Frontinus of perforating a water channel.^(OLD 2012) Apuleius has it figuratively of Cupid wounding Jupiter's heart,^(TLL) and the Vulgate in Job of being wounded in the loins.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus, of cutting in surgery.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella, of damaging a vine.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate, in Job.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|wound]] severely, inflict many wounds on.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To damage by cutting; to bore, [[m|en|perforate]] (a water pipe).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vulnerō]]

+ * [[vulnus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}