palpito Latin · revision 34631

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpaɫ.pɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpal.pi.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''palpitō''' (present infinitive palpitāre, perfect active palpitāvī, supine palpitātum); first conjugation, no passive^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|palpō|-itō|t1=to touch softly, stroke]], a frequentative verb.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds no etymology for [[m|la|palpō]]; to explain the second vowel of this verb and of [[m|la|palpebra|t=eyelid]], Serbat posited an older verb meaning “to move repeatedly”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero has it first,^(de Vaan 2008) in the ''De natura deorum'', of the beating heart.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is used of the heart and arteries beating strongly from illness or emotion,^(OLD 2012) and of anything that quivers: Ovid's cut-off tongue that throbs like a snake's severed tail, the brain of an infant in Pliny the Elder, and the drop of blood that leaps in an egg.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It often describes people and animals in their death throes, as in Ovid, Lucan, Statius and Suetonius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny also uses it of the gills of fish and of a frog's tongue.^(OLD 2012) Statius transfers it to a flickering fire, and Petronius uses it of a throbbing mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it can also mean to blink.^(Stelten 1995) English ''palpitate'' was taken from its past participle in the 1620s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the heart.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of a severed tongue.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius uses it of a flickering fire.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of people half dead.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1620s – English borrows ''palpitate''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # (of the heart or arteries) To beat, [[m|en|throb]]; to beat strongly, [[m|en|palpitate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|quiver]], twitch (of a dying creature or a severed part).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of other pulsating movements of the body, such as gills.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(transferred)'' To flicker (of fire).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[palpitātiō]]

+ * [[palpitātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[palpō]]

+ * [[palpebra]]

+ * [[en|palpitate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}