exsatio Latin · revision 35988

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=59 BC–17 AD, Livy|origins=la satis}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛksˈsa.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eksˈsat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exsatiō''' (present infinitive exsatiāre, perfect active exsatiāvī, supine exsatiātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''exatiō''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|satiō#1|t2=to satisfy]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists ⟨satiāre⟩, attested from Lucretius, among the derivatives of [[m|la|satis|t=enough]], which goes back to [[ine-pro|*sh₂-ti-|t=satisfaction, satiation]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Ovid and Livy on;^(TLL) Lewis & Short note that it is not found before the Augustan period.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy uses it of men who would not take up arms until they were sated with food and wine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its main use is figurative, of satisfying a person's passions or glutting the passions themselves:^(OLD 2012) Livy writes that the people were not satisfied even by the death of Publius Scipio, and Ovid of a house glutted with disaster.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Poets extend it to weapons sated with blood: Silius Italicus to swords and Statius to missiles.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Tacitus uses it of people who, once they began asking for money, would never be satisfied.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of soldiers sated with food and wine.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of a house glutted with disaster.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius Italicus uses it of swords sated with blood.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of people never satisfied.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|satiate]], fill (with food and drink).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To satisfy (a person or a passion) fully, [[m|en|glut]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}