nauseo Latin · revision 34612

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈnau̯.se.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈnaːu̯.se.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nauseō''' (present infinitive nauseāre, perfect active nauseāvī, supine nauseātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|nausea|-ō|t1=seasickness]],^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The noun is [[bor|grc|ναυσία|tr=nausía]],^(OLD 2012)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Wiktionary) from [[m|grc|ναῦς|tr=naûs|t=ship]].^(Wiktionary) The TLL compares the Greek verb [[m|grc|ναυσιάω|tr=nausiáō]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Plautus' ''Amphitruo'', where a character, just off a ship, says ''etiam nunc nauseo'', “I am still seasick”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From seasickness it was extended to any nausea: Cicero, in the ''Philippics'' and a letter, uses it of a man who belches and vomits,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Celsus and Juvenal of feeling sick.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the ''De natura deorum'' Cicero uses it figuratively of someone spewing out nonsense,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) and Phaedrus has it of feeling disgust at folly.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ The TLL records a deponent form ''nauseor'' beside the active,^(TLL) and the OLD the spelling ''nausiō''.^(OLD 2012) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means “to vomit, be seasick”.^(Stelten 1995) English took the participle stem as [[m|en|nauseate]] in the 1630s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of nausea and, figuratively, of uttering nonsense.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 15 BC–c. 50 AD – Phaedrus uses it of disgust.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1630s – English borrows the stem as ''nauseate''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To be [[m|en|seasick]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To feel sick, be inclined to [[m|en|vomit]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To feel [[m|en|disgust]] or loathing; to spew out (nonsense).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[nauseabilis]]

+ * [[nauseābundus]]

+ * [[nauseātor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}