efflagito Latin · revision 33984

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛfˈfɫaː.ɡɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [efˈflaː.d͡ʒi.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''efflāgitō''' (present infinitive efflāgitāre, perfect active efflāgitāvī, supine efflāgitātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|flāgitō|t2=to demand]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan takes [[m|la|flāgitō]] as an iterative of a lost verb meaning to whip, from [[itc-pro|*flāg-e/o-|t=to whip]]: whipping someone as a punishment became scolding, and so demanding.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Cicero on,^(TLL) who uses it of a letter.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to ask for something insistently or imperiously, to demand:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it of a letter, of a tribune's power demanded by the people's longing for the courts.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Quintilian uses it of books asked for urgently.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the ''Verrines'' it apparently means to importune a person, as the boy's mother and grandmother did.^(OLD 2012) Cicero and Quintilian have short perfect forms such as ''efflāgitāsset'' and ''efflāgitāstī''.^(TLL) Stelten glosses it "entreat".^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of demanding a letter.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of books asked for urgently.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To ask for insistently, [[m|en|demand]] urgently, [[m|en|entreat]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|importune]] (a person).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[efflāgitātiō]]

+ * [[efflāgitātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[flāgitō]]

+ * [[flāgitium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}