obloquor Latin · revision 34610

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɔb.ɫɔ.kʷɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɔb.lo.kʷor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''obloquor''' (present infinitive obloquī, perfect active oblocūtus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ob-|loquor|t2=to speak]],^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) literally “to speak against”.^(Lewis & Short 1879) [[m|la|loquor]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*(t)lokʷ-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*tlokʷ-|t=to talk]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Plautus' ''Menaechmi'', with the dative, of breaking in on a speaker: ''te morare mihi quom obloquere'', “you hold me up when you interrupt me”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Plautus, Afranius and Cicero use it of interrupting and contradicting;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Cicero writes to his brother that he would like him to address him, interrupt him and talk with him.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Catullus uses it of railing at someone,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and in the ''Aeneid'' the singer ''obloquitur numeris septem discrimina vocum'', accompanying the rhythm with the seven notes of the lyre;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid uses it of birdsong.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ From Seneca on it means “to blame, find fault with”,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and the Vulgate has it in the Psalms.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to revile, slander or speak against.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of interrupting.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of contradicting.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it of railing at someone.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of a musical accompaniment.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it of reviling.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|interrupt]] (a speaker), break in; to [[m|en|contradict]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|rail|alt=rail at]], abuse.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To sing or play as an [[m|en|accompaniment]] (to).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To blame, find fault with.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To revile, [[m|en|slander]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[oblocūtiō]]

+ * [[oblocūtor]]

+ * [[obloquium]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[alloquor]]

+ * [[circumloquor]]

+ * [[colloquor]]

+ * [[ēloquor]]

+ * [[interloquor]]

+ * [[loquor]]

+ * [[praeloquor]]

+ * [[prōloquor]]

+ * [[trāloquor]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Lewis and Short give [[interpellō]] as a synonym of the first sense.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}