deversor Latin · revision 36011

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *uert-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deːˈwɛr.sɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [deˈvɛr.sor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēversor''' (present infinitive dēversārī, perfect active dēversātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''dēvorsor'' and ''dīversor''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|versō|t2=to keep turning]], according to the OLD;^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary takes it as a frequentative of [[m|la|dēvertō|t=to turn off the road for lodging]],^(Wiktionary) and the TLL compares both verbs.^(TLL) The verb [[m|la|versō]] is itself the frequentative of [[m|la|vertō|t=to turn]],^(Wiktionary) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*wert-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*uert-e/o-|t=to turn]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Cicero on;^(TLL) in the Verrines he uses it of the house in which a man lodged, and of someone who lodged in poor style (''parum laute'').^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it rare but good prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero has it with ''apud'' and the host's name, of lodging with someone at Athens or at Laodicea, and with ''domī'' or ''in domō'', of staying in someone's house.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Livy uses it of shelters built so that those bringing supplies could stay in them;^(TLL) Valerius Maximus has it of a country house and of an inn, and Gellius of a hut outside the city.^(TLL)

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+ Apuleius has the spelling ''dīversor'' and uses it of staying somewhere as a hired soldier.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Tertullian applies it figuratively to dwelling in an act of penance,^(Georges 1913) and Sulpicius Severus has two women living in one house.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of lodging in a house or with a host.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of shelters for those bringing supplies.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius has the spelling ''dīversor''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it figuratively.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|lodge]], stay (usually for a time, as a guest), put up (somewhere or with someone).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # (with an adverb) To have lodgings (of a certain kind).^(OLD 2012)

+ # (figurative) To dwell (in a state).^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dēvertō]]

+ * [[dēversōrium]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A separate noun ''dēversor'', -ōris m., “lodger, guest”, formed from [[dēvertō]], is found once, in Cicero's ''De inventione'', where many manuscripts read ''dīversor'';^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Georges treats it as a bad reading for that word.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}