ereptor Latin · revision 34621

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [eːˈrɛp.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eˈrɛp.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēreptor''' ''m'' (genitive ēreptōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ēripiō|-tor|t1=to snatch away]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan lists [[m|la|ēripiō]] among the compounds of [[m|la|rapiō|t=to seize]],^(de Vaan 2008) which he traces to [[itc-pro|*rap-i-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁r̥p-i-|t=to seize]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero has it first,^(Köbler 2010) meaning “one who takes away by force, a robber”: in the speech for Quinctius he calls a man a possessor of property, an expeller and a ''ēreptor''.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero also uses it with a genitive of the thing taken: a robber of the state, a tyrant and robber of liberty.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus has ''terrārum ēreptōrēs'', robbers of lands, and Boethius calls avarice a violent robber of other people's wealth.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In Christian Latin it took the opposite sense, “one who snatches someone away from danger”, a deliverer: Gregory the Great uses it of God.^(TLL) Medieval British and German sources use it for a rescuer or deliverer, and of God or Christ.^(DMLBS)^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it for a robber.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus speaks of robbers of lands.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|robber]], [[m|en|plunderer]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' A [[m|en|deliverer]], rescuer, especially of God.^(TLL)^(DMLBS)^(MLW)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}