offundo Latin · revision 33956

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *ǵʰu-n-d-}}

+

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɔfˈfʊn.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ofˈfun.do]^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''offundō''' (present infinitive offundere, perfect active offūdī, supine offūsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ob-|fundō|t2=to pour]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|fundō]] to [[itc-pro|*χund-]] and [[ine-pro|*ǵʰu-n-d-|t=to pour]], with cognates such as [[sa|जुहोति|tr=juhóti|t=pours, sacrifices]] and [[grc|χέω|tr=khéō|t=to pour]].^(de Vaan 2008)

+

+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it first, in the ''Asinaria'', of a fowler who has prepared his ground and scatters food for the birds.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+

+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The TLL finds it in verse only in Plautus, Phaedrus, Valerius Flaccus and Statius, and in prose from Cicero and Livy on.^(TLL) It means to pour or spread something over a surface,^(OLD 2012) especially of darkness and similar things: Cicero speaks of an endless night spread over the state, and of the air that surrounds us as water does fish.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is to spread a feeling: Livy has sudden panic spread among disordered troops.^(OLD 2012) With an ablative it means to overspread or cover, as the light of a lamp dimmed by the sun in Cicero,^(OLD 2012) and to fill someone with a feeling or thought: Cicero says that Marcellus fills his heart with the memory of all the Marcelli.^(OLD 2012) Manuscripts sometimes spell it ''obf-''.^(TLL) Stelten gives "pour out" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

+

+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of scattering food for birds.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of endless night spread over the state.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of panic spread among troops.^(OLD 2012)

+

+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|pour]] or spread over;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(of darkness)'' to spread over;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(figurative)'' to spread (a feeling).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To overspread, cover;^(OLD 2012) ''(figurative)'' to fill, [[m|en|overwhelm]] (with a feeling).^(OLD 2012)

+

+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fundō]]

+ * [[effundō]]

+ * [[īnfundō]]

+ * [[superfundō]]

+

+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}