circumvolito Latin · revision 36230

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 180–102 BC, Lucilius|origins=la volō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɪr.kʊmˈwɔ.lɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [t͡ʃir.kumˈvɔː.li.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''circumvolitō''' (present infinitive circumvolitāre, perfect active circumvolitāvī, supine circumvolitātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|circum-|volitō|t1=around|t2=to fly about]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) the TLL compares [[m|la|circumvolō|t=to fly around]].^(TLL) De Vaan lists [[m|la|volitō]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|volō#2|t=to fly]]; following Muller, he allows it to go back to [[ine-pro|*gʷelh₁-ie/o-|t=to raise the arm, throw]], with a shift of meaning from raising the arm to flying, a link that Walde and Hofmann rejected.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate, if so, with [[grc|βάλλω|tr=bállō|t=to throw]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds the compound from Lucilius on,^(TLL) who has a figpecker and thrushes flying about.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to fly round about, without an object.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil uses it in tmesis, with Rumour flying far and wide, and Tacitus of birds flying round;^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Lucretius, Seneca and Silius Italicus use it of horsemen riding about or of a horse's hoof.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) With an object it means to fly round or about something: a swallow that has flown round the lakes, a line the OLD cites from Varro of Atax and Lewis and Short from Virgil's ''Georgics'';^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder writes of swifts that do not fly round ships, and Horace asks a poet friend what thyme he is flitting about.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Of people it means to hover around or frequent a place: Columella mocks the hired greeter who flits about the thresholds of the powerful, and Silius uses it of a lictor.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Martianus Capella uses it of breezes.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it of birds flying about.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of horsemen.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of flitting about thyme.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of a client flitting about doorways.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of birds flying round.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # (intransitive) To [[m|en|fly]] round about;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) (of horsemen) to ride about.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # (transitive) To fly round, [[m|en|flit]] about over.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # (of persons) To [[m|en|hover]] around, frequent.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[volitō]]

+ * [[circumvolō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}