illabor Latin · revision 34397

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la lābor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪlˈlaː.bɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ilˈlaː.bor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''illābor''' (present infinitive illābī, perfect active illāpsus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|lābor#1|t2=to glide, slip]].^(TLL)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan lists [[m|la|lābor#1]] among the words placed beside [[m|la|labō|t=to totter]], but doubts the connection and leaves it without a further etymology.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Cicero on;^(TLL) in his work on the nature of the gods he writes of the gullet, into which what the mouth takes in first glides (''illābuntur'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to [[m|en|glide]] or slip into something: in Virgil the wooden horse glides into the middle of the city, Statius uses it of moving through the air, and Pliny the Elder, Lucan and Tacitus of rivers flowing into others.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010) Of things that are not material, Cicero uses it of pleasure that flows into the senses, and Virgil in a prayer to glide into the minds of those who pray (''animīs illābere nostrīs'').^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It also means to fall or sink on to something: Horace uses it of a tree trunk falling on the head and of the world collapsing in ruins.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Ecclesiastical Latin it can mean to slip into a habit,^(Stelten 1995) and medieval writers used it of landing on a shore, of liquids flowing in and of sounds reaching the ears.^(MLW) English [[m|en|illapse]], from its participle, is recorded from the 1610s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of food gliding into the gullet.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of the wooden horse gliding into the city.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of a falling tree trunk.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of a river flowing into another.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1610s – English [[m|en|illapse]] is formed from its participle.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To move smoothly into, [[m|en|glide]] or slip into.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # (of rivers) To flow into.^(OLD 2012)

+ # (of feelings, gods) To enter, penetrate (the mind, the senses).^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # To fall or [[m|en|sink]] on to; to collapse.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To slip into (a habit).^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[illāpsus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ It is also spelled ''inlābor''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}