praeterfluo Latin · revision 36250

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *bʰleuH-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|praeter-|fluō|t1=past, beyond|t2=to flow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|fluō]] to [[itc-pro|*flow-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰleuH-|t=to flow (over)]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|φλέω|tr=phléō|t=to abound]], [[m|grc|φλύω|tr=phlúō|t=to seethe, boil over]] and [[lt|bliáuti|t=to bleat, sob]].^(de Vaan 2008) The prefix is [[m|la|praeter|t=past, beyond]], which de Vaan lists among the derivatives of [[m|la|prae|t=before]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in Cato, Varro and Cicero.^(TLL) Cato uses it figuratively in his work on military matters, saying that he let the speeches of his detractors flow past him.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its literal sense is to flow past, said of water and rivers.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Varro uses it without an object, of water that should flow past a place, and Curtius of running water.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) With an object it means to flow past or wash a place: Sallust's ''Histories'' have the river Turia flowing past Valentia, Livy a river flowing past city walls, and Velleius and Mela rivers flowing along a territory or past a town.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ The figurative sense is to slip past or vanish.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero speaks of not letting a past pleasure slip from memory,^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) and Quintilian says that teaching is in vain if all we hear flows past us.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Augustine uses it of sound passing into the past.^(TLL) The TLL notes that the perfect is very rare and the present, often the participle, is the usual form, and that in verse it occurs only in Priscian's ''Periegesis''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of speeches he let flow past him.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of water flowing past.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust uses it of a river flowing past a town.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a pleasure slipping from memory.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of lessons that flow past the hearer.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine uses it of sound passing into the past.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

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

+ # (transitive) To flow past (a place), [[m|en|wash]].^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # (figurative) To slip past, pass away, [[m|en|vanish]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[affluō]]

+ * [[circumfluō]]

+ * [[cōnfluō]]

+ * [[dēfluō]]

+ * [[diffluō]]

+ * [[effluō]]

+ * [[fluō]]

+ * [[īnfluō]]

+ * [[interfluō]]

+ * [[perfluō]]

+ * [[praeter]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}