evanesco Latin · revision 34035

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=la vānus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [eː.waːˈneːs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [e.vaˈnɛs.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēvānēscō''' (present infinitive ēvānēscere, perfect active ēvānuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|vānēscō|t2=to vanish]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) an inchoative of [[m|la|vānus|t=empty]].^(TLL)^(Etymonline) De Vaan traces that adjective to [[itc-pro|*wāno-]] or [[itc-pro|*wā̆sno-]], and compares [[sa|वायति|tr=vā́yati|t=to disappear]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In a prologue of Terence, someone fears that a play's text might vanish together with its poet.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to vanish, fade away, cease to be perceived: Varro writes of the time before the frost has gone, and Lucretius of the scent of wine vanishing and of colour fading.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also to lose strength, as wine or salted fish that grow weak with age in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) Of abstract things it is to disappear or die out, and in law, as in Gaius, a legacy lapses or becomes void.^(OLD 2012) Lactantius has a future participle ''ēvānitūrus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Church Latin also uses it of becoming vapid, and of dying.^(Stelten 1995) English ''evanesce'' dates from 1817.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of writing vanishing.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of frost.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of scent and colour.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 140–180 AD – Gaius of a legacy that lapses.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 1817 – English ''evanesce''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|vanish]], fade away, disappear.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To lose strength; to become [[m|en|vapid]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of abstract things, to die out;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ''(law)'' to become void, [[m|en|lapse]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ēvānidus]]

+ * [[vanus|alt=vānus]]

+ * [[en|evanesce]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}