istuc Latin · revision 34084

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪsˈtuːk]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [isˈtuk]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''istūc''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The OLD takes it as perhaps from ⟨*istoic⟩, an old locative of direction [[der|la|istic|t=that of yours]], comparing [[grc|ποῖ|tr=poî|t=whither]].^(OLD 2012) De Vaan lists it among the adverbs made from [[m|la|iste|t=that (of yours)]], going back to [[itc-pro|*es-to-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) where a woman says she is going there as fast as she can.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to or toward the place where the person addressed is: Plautus and Terence use it often in this way.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In letters it is to where you are, to you, as when Cicero tells Atticus that no one going there should be sent without a letter.^(OLD 2012) Transferred, it is to the point in a story or argument which the other person has mentioned: in Terence a man says he will come to that later.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, going there.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of coming to a point.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero in letters, to where you are.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # To or toward the place where you are, [[m|en|thither]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To the point you have mentioned.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[iste]]

+ * [[istinc]]

+ * [[huc|alt=hūc]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''istuc'' with a short ''u'' is also the neuter of the pronoun [[istic|alt=istic]], ''istic, istaec, istuc'', that of yours.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}