transvolo Latin · revision 34728

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈtrãːs.wɔ.ɫoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈtranz.vo.lo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trānsvolō''' (present infinitive trānsvolāre, perfect active trānsvolāvī, supine trānsvolātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''trāvolō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|trāns-|volō#2|t1=across|t2=to fly]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs [[m|la|volō#2]] as [[itc-pro|*gʷela-je/o-]] from [[ine-pro|*gʷelh₁-ie/o-|t=to raise the arm, throw]], a link he finds conceivable but which Walde and Hofmann rejected.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus on,^(de Vaan 2008) who uses the form ''travolaverunt'': the arms a character carried “flew across to the enemy”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its basic sense is “to fly across”: Seneca uses it of birds of prey flying past, and Pliny the Elder of partridges that will not fly across the borders of Boeotia into Attica.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It was used of anything that moves through the air, as a voice in Lucretius, and of moving fast as if flying: in Livy a horseman crosses to the other wing to bring news of victory, and Asinius Pollio, in a letter to Cicero, asks whether he could fly over the Alps.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ Horace has it of Cupid flying past dry oaks, and Quintilian of what slips past a listener.^(OLD 2012) Pliny and Gellius also use it of time or ripeness passing quickly by.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses the form ''travolare'' of arms flying to the enemy.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of a voice flying through the air.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of Cupid flying past.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of birds and of the flow of the Nile.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|fly]] across, fly from one side to the other.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To move through the air; to cross swiftly as if flying.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To fly over something without touching it.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of time, to [[m|en|pass]] by quickly.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[trānsvolitō]]

+ * [[ēvolō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Varro explains the name of the ladle ''trua'' by the water “flying across” it (''transvolat'').^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}