despolio Latin · revision 34022

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la spolium}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deːsˈpɔ.li.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [desˈpɔː.li.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēspoliō''' (present infinitive dēspoliāre, perfect active dēspoliāvī, supine dēspoliātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ A deponent form occurs in Afranius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Manuscripts often have ''dispoliō''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|spoliō|t2=to strip, rob]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) the TLL derives it from [[m|la|dē-]] and [[m|la|spolium|t=spoil, booty]] or that verb.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In Plautus' ''Menaechmi'' a speaker complains of being robbed by a man who secretly carries off the speaker's ornaments to prostitutes.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to rob, plunder or despoil someone of something: Caesar has a request not to be stripped of arms.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also to strip of clothing or covering, and in particular for flogging: Seneca speaks of a man stripped, who has lost his only tunic.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it rare but good prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Afranius has a deponent form, and Priscian says the oldest writers used it so.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Later manuscripts often spell it ''disp-''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it strip, despoil.^(Stelten 1995) English ''despoil'' (c. 1200) came through Old French ''despoillier''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of robbing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of stripping.^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 1200 – English ''despoil''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To rob, [[m|en|plunder]], [[m|en|despoil]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|strip]] of clothing or covering; to strip for flogging.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[despoliatio]]

+ * [[despoliator]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[spolio|alt=spoliō]]

+ * [[spolium]]

+ * [[en|despoil]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}