peredo Latin · revision 34353

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la edō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpɛ.rɛ.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpɛː.re.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''peredō''' (present infinitive peredere or perēsse, perfect active perēdī, supine perēsum or perēssum or perēstum); third conjugation, irregular alternative forms^(Wiktionary)

+ The participle is spelled ''peressus'' in manuscripts of Lucretius and Virgil.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|edō#1|t2=to eat]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces the simple verb to [[itc-pro|*ed-|t=to eat]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁éd-mi|t=to eat]], and compares [[osc|edum|t=to eat]], [[grc|ἔδω|tr=édō|t=to eat, devour]] and [[sa|अद्मि|tr=ádmi]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first use is in a fragment of Plautus about the drone in the hive that eats up the bees' food, ''fucum in alveo, apibus qui peredit cibum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short call it a poetic word.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Besides eating up food, it is used of natural forces that eat away or wear down: rocks eaten by brine in Lucretius, fire that does not consume Aetna in Horace, stone worn by water in Tibullus, fleeces eaten away by disease in Virgil.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Figuratively it is used of feelings that consume a person: Catullus' ''multis languoribus peresus'', and Virgil's ''quos durus amor crudeli tabe peredit'', “those whom harsh love has consumed with cruel wasting”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Prudentius uses it of eating up ''quinque panes et gemellos pisces'', “five loaves and twin fishes”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means “to eat up, consume”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a drone eating the bees' food.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of rocks eaten away by salt.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of love consuming its victims.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 348/49–c. 413 AD – Prudentius uses it of eating up loaves and fishes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To eat up, [[m|en|devour]] completely.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(of natural forces or disease)'' To eat away, [[m|en|corrode]], [[m|en|consume]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(figurative, of emotions)'' To consume, waste.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A separate ''perēdō'', compounded with [[edō#2|alt=ēdō]], “to give out”, is known only from an old poet quoted by Sidonius Apollinaris, meaning “to publish”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}