devolo Latin · revision 34369

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈdeː.wɔ.ɫoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈdɛː.vo.lo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēvolō''' (present infinitive dēvolāre, perfect active dēvolāvī, supine dēvolātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|volō#2|t2=to fly]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan derives the simple verb from [[itc-pro|*gʷela-je/o-]]; following Muller he connects it with [[ine-pro|*gʷelh₁-|t=to raise the arm, throw]], the root of [[grc|βάλλω|tr=bállō|t=to throw]], a shift of meaning he finds conceivable for birds, though Walde and Hofmann rejected it.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus on,^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008) who writes ''devolant angues iubati deorsum in impluvium duo'', “two crested snakes fly down into the impluvium”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its main sense is flying or swooping down, as when Virgil’s Iris flies down through the sky and stands above someone’s head.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy uses it of people rushing down from the tribunal to help a lictor.^(OLD 2012) It also meant flying to a place, as Horace’s thrush flies off to where wealth shines, and flying away: the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' says that when fortune slips away, they fly off.^(OLD 2012) Medieval writers used it of feathers flying off a bird of prey and of a spark flying from a beloved.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of snakes flying down.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of Iris flying down from the sky.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of a thrush flying off.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of rushing down from the tribunal.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To fly or [[m|en|swoop]] down.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To drop down.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To hurry or [[m|en|rush]] down.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # To fly (to a place).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To fly away.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}