insterno Latin · revision 34127

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *st(e)r-n-h₃-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ĩːˈstɛr.noː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [inˈstɛr.no]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnsternō''' (present infinitive īnsternere, perfect active īnstrāvī, supine īnstrātum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|sternō|t2=to spread, strew]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan traces the simple verb to [[itc-pro|*sterna-]] and [[ine-pro|*st(e)r-n-h₃-|t=to spread, strew]]; it is cognate with [[sga|sernaid|t=to spread, build]], [[sa|स्तृणाति|tr=str̥ṇā́ti|t=to spread out, extend, strew]] and [[grc|στόρνυμι|tr=stórnumi|t=to extend, strew out]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Cato on,^(TLL) and de Vaan lists the noun [[īnstrātum]] “saddle-cloth” in Cato.^(de Vaan 2008) Among the OLD's quotations the earliest are Varro, who says that whatever was spread on (''insternēbant'') was called ''strāgulum'', and Lucretius, who has beds strewn with leaves (''īnstrāta cubīlia fronde'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Virgil has horses covered with purple (''īnstrātōs ostrō alipedēs'') and high gangways laid on a tower, and Horace says that Aeschylus laid a stage on modest beams.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy uses it of horses saddled and bridled, Suetonius of a couch modestly covered, and Ulpian of Babylonian cloths spread on horses.^(OLD 2012) Statius uses it of laying a body on a river bank, and of casting oneself into fire.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of spreading on a cover.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of horses covered with purple.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of laying a stage.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius uses it of casting oneself into fire.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|spread]] or lay on, lay as a covering.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014)

+ # To lay (a floor, deck, stage).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|cover]], bestrew (with); without an ablative, to cover with a rug or cloth, to saddle (horses).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To throw (oneself) into (fire).^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[instrātum]]

+ * [[instrātus]]

+ * [[superinsternō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sternō]]

+ * [[substernō]]

+ * [[strāgulum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}