desuesco Latin · revision 34380

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=end of 2nd/beginning of 1st century BC, Titinius|origins=la suēscō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deː.suˈeːs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [de.s̬uˈɛs.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēsuēscō''' (present infinitive dēsuēscere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stems^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|suēscō|t2=to become accustomed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan derives the simple verb from [[itc-pro|*swē(þ)-sk-e/o-]], an inchoative built on [[ine-pro|*sue(h1-)dhh1-|t=to make one's own, get accustomed]], and compares [[grc|εἴωθα|tr=eíōtha|t=to be wont]] and [[grc|ἦθος|tr=êthos|t=custom, usage]].^(de Vaan 2008) He notes that in Latin the compound verbs are clearly older than the simple one, which is a back-formation from them.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Titinius and Virgil on.^(TLL) In a fragment of Titinius (end of 2nd/beginning of 1st century BC), quoted by Nonius, a speaker says he has broken someone of the habit of going out to dinner.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ L&S find it mostly in poetry and post-Augustan prose, and not at all in Cicero or Caesar; they compare [[dēsuēfaciō]].^(Lewis & Short 1879) Its participle ''dēsuētus'' “unaccustomed, out of use” is common: Virgil has arms long unused and hearts grown unaccustomed, Livy a practice long out of use and Samnites unaccustomed to the Roman battle cry, Ovid stars and words that have become unfamiliar.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Tibullus uses it with an infinitive of a way of life that has given up driving away hunger with acorns, and Quintilian speaks of things that have to be unlearned.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Silius has the form ''dissuēscō'', with the dative, of a people slowly drifting away from the honour of their fathers.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to put aside a custom.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * end of 2nd/beginning of 1st century BC – Titinius uses it transitively, of breaking a habit.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses the participle of arms long unused.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 55–19/18 BC – Tibullus uses it with an infinitive.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–AD 17 – Livy uses the participle of a practice out of use.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius has the form ''dissuēscō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To become [[m|en|unaccustomed]] to, [[m|en|unlearn]], give up the habit of.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To break (someone) of a habit, [[m|en|disaccustom]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēsuēfaciō]]

+ * [[dēsuēfīō]]

+ * [[dēsuētūdō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}