immorior Latin · revision 35925

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=65–8 BC, Horace|origins=la morior}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪmˈmɔ.ri.ɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [imˈmɔː.ri.or]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''immorior''' (present infinitive immorī, perfect active immortuus sum); third (-iō variant) conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''inmorior''.^(OLD 2012)^(MLW)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|morior|t2=to die]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The simple verb goes back to [[itc-pro|*morje-]] and [[ine-pro|*mr̥-ie/o-|t=to die]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from the ''Culex'' and Horace on.^(TLL) Horace uses it hyperbolically of a man who “dies over” his pursuits and grows old in the love of gain (''immoritur studiīs'').^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a word of poetry and of post-Augustan prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It means to die in or upon something, usually with the dative: in Ovid one sister dies upon another, and Pliny the Elder writes of honey in which bees have died.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means to die in the middle of an activity or a suffering: Seneca has a man who dies while going through his accounts, and Quintilian someone who says he will die on his embassy.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Ecclesiastical and medieval Latin kept the sense “to die”;^(Stelten 1995)^(MLW) Florus of Lyon uses it of the grain that dies in the earth, after the Gospel of John, and the perfect participle could be a noun, “the dead woman”.^(Stelten 1995)^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it hyperbolically.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of dying upon someone.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of dying during an activity.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of bees dead in honey.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * second quarter of the 9th century – Walahfrid Strabo uses it in a poem.^(MLW)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|die]] in or upon something, in a particular place or position.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To die amid or during something;^(OLD 2012) ''(hyperbolic)'' to wear oneself out over.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[commorior]]

+ * [[ēmorior]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}