umecto Latin · revision 35721

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=la ūmeō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ūmectō''' (present infinitive ūmectāre, perfect active ūmectāvī, supine ūmectātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ūmectus|-ō|t1=moist, wet]],^(OLD 2012) also spelled ⟨hūm-⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The adjective belongs with [[ūmeō]] “to be moist”, which goes back to [[itc-pro|*ūmo-|t=wet]];^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) de Vaan follows Weiss in deriving this from [[ine-pro|*uh₁-mo-|t=wet]], while earlier scholars connected it with the root of [[ūvidus]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Lucretius,^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) who uses it of moistening faces with salt tears.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short describe it as poetic and post-Augustan in prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil uses it of the river Galaesus watering the yellow fields, Ovid of tears wetting the grass, Columella of moistening a lamb's mouth from the udder, and Gellius of drink moistening the lungs.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Pliny the Elder also uses it intransitively of watering eyes, as of a young sea eagle whose eyes run.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of tears wetting faces.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of a river watering fields.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make wet, [[m|en|moisten]], [[m|en|water]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(intransitive)'' Of the eyes, to water; to have watering eyes.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[umectatio]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}