intermorior Latin · revision 36001

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *mr-ie/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intermorior''' (present infinitive intermorī, perfect active intermortuus sum); third (-iō variant) conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|inter-|morior|t2=to die]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of the simple verb, which goes back to [[itc-pro|*morje-|t=to die]] and [[ine-pro|*mr-ie/o-|t=to die]]; cognates include [[sa|म्रियते|tr=mriyáte]] and [[lt|mir̃ti|t=to die]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest quotation is in Plautus, who says in the ''Trinummus'' that nearly all good morals have died out.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cato uses it of shoots that will die off.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero has the memory of a family almost extinct, the half-dead remnants of Catiline's following and lifeless public meetings,^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) and a letter to him from Bithynicus says that no kindness of his will die away.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy writes of letting a state perish through remedies too harsh for it, and of a man who collapsed in the middle of an assembly and died soon after.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ Celsus uses it of people fainting from loss of blood, who are to be revived with wine;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid calls candour a thing almost dead in his age.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Pliny the Elder uses it of plants dying off and of stones that go dark as if dead when touched, and Curtius of a fire dying down.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Suetonius has someone lying almost lifeless, and Ulpian uses it of roads that come to a dead end.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Festus speaks of words that are dead and buried.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of good morals dying out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of shoots dying off.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses the participle of things half dead.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of a man collapsing in an assembly.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it of fainting from loss of blood.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of roads that come to a dead end.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To die out, [[m|en|perish]], become [[m|en|extinct]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # (of a road) To come to a dead end.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|faint]], pass out, collapse.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # (of plants) To die off (between periods of growth).^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # (of fire) To die down.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[morior]]

+ * [[ēmorior]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The past participle ''intermortuus'' is often used as an adjective, “half dead, lifeless, faint”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}