expallesco Latin · revision 34682

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛk.spalˈleːs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ek.spalˈlɛs.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''expallēscō''' (present infinitive expallēscere, perfect active expalluī); third conjugation, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|pallēscō|t2=to grow pale]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The TLL derives it from [[m|la|ex]] and [[m|la|palleō|t=to be pale]].^(TLL)

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+ [[m|la|pallēscō]] is formed from that verb, which goes back to [[itc-pro|*palwo-|t=pale, grey]];^(de Vaan 2008) de Vaan finds the Germanic and Balto-Slavic cognates hard to reconcile with the Latin ⟨a⟩ and also considers a loanword into the European languages.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Plautus: ''viden ut expalluit!'', “see how he has turned pale!”^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' lists blushing, turning pale and stammering as signs of a guilty conscience.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid, Lucan and Pliny the Younger also use it;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis and Short think it perhaps occurs only in the perfect.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In poetry it is also transitive, “to turn pale at, dread”: Horace has one who did not blanch at drinking from the Pindaric spring, and Silius Italicus uses it the same way.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a person turning pale.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' counts turning pale among signs of guilt.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it transitively, “to dread”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it in the ''Metamorphoses''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To turn [[m|en|pale]], grow very pale.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(transitive, poetic)'' To turn pale with fear of, to [[m|en|dread]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Charisius lists it among verbs of the third conjugation.^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}