repto Latin · revision 34124

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *rēp-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈreːp.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈrɛp.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rēptō''' (present infinitive rēptāre, perfect active rēptāvī, supine rēptātum); first conjugation, no passive^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|rēpō|-tō|t1=to creep]], a frequentative verb.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan traces the simple verb to [[itc-pro|*rēp-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁reh₁p-]] or [[ine-pro|*h₁rēp-]], “to creep”, and compares [[lt|rėplióti|t=to creep]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it in verse from Plautus on.^(TLL) Plautus has ''quid in urbe reptās, vīlice haud magnī pretī?'', “why are you slinking about in town, overseer of little worth?”, and, in a fragment, ''maior pars populī āridī reptant fame'', of people dragging themselves along, dried up with hunger.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it mostly poetic and post-Augustan, and a favourite word of Claudian.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lucretius uses it of woolly sheep creeping over a hill to the grass, and Horace of strolling silently through the woods.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder uses it of young locusts without legs or wings and of the creeping shoots of the gourd, Statius and Martial of infants crawling, and Gellius of a chameleon.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Statius has the passive participle, “crawled over”, of a field.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of slinking about.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of sheep.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of strolling in the woods.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of insects and plants.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of a chameleon.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|crawl]], [[m|en|creep]] (of people, animals, plants).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # (transitive) To crawl over.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To move slowly, stroll about, [[m|en|saunter]].^(OLD 2012)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014)

+ # To slink about;^(OLD 2012) (of the feeble or blind) to grope one's way.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[correpto]]

+ * [[irreptō]]

+ * [[obreptō]]

+ * [[perrēptō]]

+ * [[rēptābundus]]

+ * [[rēptātiō]]

+ * [[reptātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rēpō]]

+ * [[serpō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}