praefluo Latin · revision 36084

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=65–8 BC, Horace|origins=ine-pro *bʰleuH-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈprae̯.fɫu.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈprɛː.flu.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''praefluō''' (present infinitive praefluere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stems^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prae-|fluō|t1=in front, past|t2=to flow]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|fluō]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*flow-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰleuH-|t=to flow over]].^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan compares [[grc|φλύω|tr=phlúō|t=to seethe, boil over]] and [[lt|bliáuti|t=to bleat, sob]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in Horace and Livy:^(TLL) Horace has the waters that flow past fertile Tibur, and Livy the Tiber flowing past at the bottom of a valley.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is used of rivers and other water, either intransitively, to flow past, or with an accusative, to flow past a place.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Horace has the Aufidus flowing past the realms of Daunus, Pliny the Elder the same river flowing past Canusium, and Tacitus a river flowing past a camp and the Danube past the province of Noricum.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Columella advises building a farmhouse above a river that flows past, Tacitus has a river with an uncertain ford, and Florus waters at a strait that seemed to sing along with pipes and lyres.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) An inscription uses it of water in a pipe.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Lewis and Short call it rare and perhaps not older than Augustus.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the manuscripts it is often confused with [[perfluō]] and [[prōfluō]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of the waters that flow past Tibur.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of the Tiber.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of a river below a farmhouse.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of a river flowing past a camp.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # (intransitive) To [[m|en|flow]] in front, flow past.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # (transitive) To flow in front of or past (a place).^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[praefluus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fluō]]

+ * [[prōfluō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}