contremo Latin · revision 34357

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=220–130 BC, Pacuvius|origins=la tremō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkɔn.trɛ.moː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkɔn.tre.mo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''contremō''' (present infinitive contremere, perfect active contremuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|tremō|t2=to tremble]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces the simple verb to [[itc-pro|*trem-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*tr(e)m-|t=to tremble]], and compares [[grc|τρέμω|tr=trémō|t=to tremble]] and [[lt|trìmti|t=to tremble]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Pacuvius, in the line ''caelum tonitru contremit'', “the sky quakes with thunder”, quoted by Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a rare word for trembling all over or violently:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lucretius uses it of the parched earth quaking under the stroke of a thunderbolt,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) and the TLL records it in Seneca and in Tiberius Claudius Donatus' commentary on the ''Aeneid''.^(TLL) Martianus Capella uses it transitively, “to fear”.^(Conte 2010) Georges assigns the perfect forms to [[contremīscō]].^(Georges 1913) In Ecclesiastical Latin it keeps the sense “to tremble”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius uses it of the sky quaking with thunder.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of the earth trembling at a thunderbolt.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 5th century AD – Martianus Capella uses it transitively, “to fear”.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|tremble]] violently, [[m|en|quake]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(transitive, Late Latin)'' To [[m|en|fear]].^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}