pubesco Latin · revision 34384

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius|origins=la pūbēs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pūbēscō''' (present infinitive pūbēscere, perfect active pūbuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pūbēs|-ēscō|t1=adulthood; the adult population]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) For the noun, de Vaan thinks the compound [[m|la|impūbēs|t=not adult]] is the older form, from which it was back-formed, and reports Adams's proposal to connect it with [[sa|पुमांस्|tr=púmāṃs-|t=male, man]], deriving both from a root [[ine-pro|*pum-|t=pubic hair]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the OLD record it first in Ennius (204–169 BC), of vines that ripen with their tendrils.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of people it means to reach puberty, to grow to manhood: Cicero uses it of Hercules when he first reached that age, and Livy speaks of the flower of the young men coming of age.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Lucretius uses it of the boy growing soft down and a beard, and Pliny the Elder says that among animals man alone grows hair at puberty.^(OLD 2012) The jurist Gaius uses it of those who cannot reach puberty, such as eunuchs.^(OLD 2012) Of plants and fruit it means to ripen or come to maturity: Cicero has the sun making everything flourish and ripen, Virgil a vineyard ripening with rich fruit, and Ovid meadows covered with flowers.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Claudian has the phoenix growing young again through death.^(Georges 1913) The compound [[repūbēscō]] means to grow young again.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius uses it of ripening vines.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of growing hair at puberty.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of reaching manhood and of plants ripening.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of a ripening vineyard.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of ripening grapes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To reach [[m|en|puberty]], grow to [[m|en|manhood]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To grow hair on the body or a beard at puberty.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(of fruit, plants)'' To come to maturity, [[m|en|ripen]]; to be covered (with flowers).^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[repūbescō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}