praetervehor Latin · revision 33926

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=170–c. 90 BC, Accius|origins=ine-pro *ueǵʰ-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [prae̯ˈtɛr.we.(ɦ)ɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [preˈtɛr.ve.or]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''praetervehor''' (present infinitive praetervehī, perfect active praetervectus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|praeter-|vehō|t1=past|t2=to carry]], mostly used as a deponent, "to be carried past".^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|vehō]] to [[itc-pro|*weχ-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*ueǵʰ-e/o-|t=to carry]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is Accius, of travellers who have sailed past the shallows of the mysteries on the right.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As a deponent it means to travel past, especially by sea: Cicero speaks of those sailing past, Caesar of sailing past Apollonia, and Statius of passing a place by land.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy has a man riding past on horseback, and the TLL dates the present participle from that passage.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Figuratively it means to pass over without stopping, especially in speech, and to get past someone unnoticed: Cicero speaks of a speech that has not passed by the hearers' ears, and Seneca says he wants to live his life, not be carried past it.^(OLD 2012) The rare active ''praetervehō'' means to carry past, as Seneca's swift course of life.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Ovid splits it, ''praeter erant vectī''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Stelten gives "be carried past, sail past" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of sailing past.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of sailing past and of a speech heard.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of sailing past Apollonia.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of riding past.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of life carried past.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To be carried past; to [[m|en|sail]], ride or drive past.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To pass over (in speech); to get past unnoticed.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(active praetervehō)'' To carry past.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vehō]]

+ * [[circumvehor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}