expugnatio Latin · revision 33911

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la pugna}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''expugnātiō''' ''f'' (genitive expugnātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|expugnō|-tiō|t1=to take by storm]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|expugnō]] is a compound of [[m|la|ex-]] and [[m|la|pugnō|t=to fight]], from [[m|la|pūgna|t=fight]], which de Vaan treats with [[m|la|pūgnus|t=fist]] under [[m|la|pungō|t=to prick]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in the speech on Pompey's command says the arrival of Roman officials in allied cities differed little from an enemy's storming of them.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the taking of a fortified place by assault: Caesar speaks of the storming of a town and of a camp, Suetonius of the storming of Mytilene,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Velleius of fighting now in battle, now in sieges.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses the plural of night-time break-ins into houses.^(Lewis & Short 1879) By extension it is ruin.^(OLD 2012) In Medieval Latin it is an attack.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of storming allied cities.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of the storming of a town and a camp.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of the storming of Mytilene.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The taking of a place by [[m|en|assault]], storming.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(plural)'' Break-ins, burglaries (of houses).^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' [[m|en|ruin|alt=Ruin]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An [[m|en|attack]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[expugnō]]

+ * [[oppugnātiō]]

+ * [[pugna]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}