dispereo Latin · revision 34030

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [dɪsˈpɛ.re.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [disˈpɛː.re.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dispereō''' (present infinitive disperīre, perfect active disperiī or disperīvī); irregular conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dis-|pereō|t2=to perish]], with ⟨dis-⟩ in the sense “utterly”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL counts it 18 times in Plautus,^(TLL) as in the ''Poenulus'', where someone vows a man will perish before he can kick once.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to perish, be destroyed, often in hyperbole: ''dispeream sī'' or ''nisi'', may I die if, or if not.^(OLD 2012) It is also to be ruined or to go for nothing: Varro writes of crops that perish, Lucretius of food lost, and Cicero asks whether his hearers will let a single estate be lost.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it rare and mostly early Latin, and the TLL finds it frequent later only in the Itala and the Vulgate, which also have a future ''disperiet''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it perish, be entirely ruined.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of crops perishing.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of an estate lost.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate.^(TLL)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|perish]], be destroyed;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''dispeream sī'': may I die if.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To be ruined; to go for nothing, be wasted.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pereo|alt=pereō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}