aquor Latin · revision 33876

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 50 BC, Caesar|origins=itc-pro *akwā-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈa.kʷɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈaː.kʷor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aquor''' (present infinitive aquārī, perfect active aquātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|aqua|-or|t1=water]], a verb made from the noun.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|aqua]] to [[itc-pro|*akwā-|t=water]], with a Germanic cognate in [[goh|aha|t=water]], and thinks the shared Italic and Germanic word may be a loan from a non-Indo-European language.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is a military term in Caesar's ''Civil War'', of soldiers who could fetch water only with difficulty,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) and Sallust uses it of a common soldier leaving camp to get water.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It stayed mostly a soldiers' word for fetching drinking water.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil, Pliny the Elder and Palladius use it of bees getting water,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Pliny of soil that likes to be watered for a long time, which Lewis & Short take as the deponent, not as a true passive.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of soldiers fetching water.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust, of a soldier going out of camp for water.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of bees.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(military)'' To fetch [[m|en|water]] for drinking.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of bees, to get water.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of the earth, to be watered.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[aquātiō]]

+ * [[aquātor]]

+ * [[inaquo]]

+ * [[adaquō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aqua]]

+ * [[aquārius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}