depressus Latin · revision 34031

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=la dēprimō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēpressus''' (feminine dēpressa, neuter dēpressum; comparative dēpressior, superlative dēpressissimus); first/second-declension participle^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as an adjective, it is the past participle [[der|la|dēprimō|t=to press down]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In a speech Cato uses it of slopes reaching downwards beside steep places.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is low-lying, situated deep down, as Virgil's low valleys, or of buildings low.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it lacks moral elevation, base or mean, as Seneca says that the higher a man raises himself the lower he is, and of style it is pedestrian.^(OLD 2012) Of sounds it is low-pitched or subdued: the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' recommends a voice as calm and low as possible.^(OLD 2012) Köbler's first author is Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of slopes.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' of a low voice.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of low valleys.^(OLD 2012)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|low-lying|alt=Low-lying]], low; sloping downwards.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Base, mean; of style, [[m|en|pedestrian]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of sounds, low-pitched, subdued.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[deprimo|alt=dēprimō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The TLL records a fourth-declension noun ''dēpressus'' only once, in a grammarian's list of idioms.^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}