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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la saliō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [asˈsɪ.li.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [asˈsiː.li.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''assiliō''' (present infinitive assilīre, perfect active assiluī); fourth conjugation, no supine stem, third person-only in the passive^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''adsiliō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|saliō#1|t2=to jump]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces that verb to [[itc-pro|*sal-je-|t=to jump]] and [[ine-pro|*sh₂l-ie/o-|t=to jump]], but regards the exact form of the root as uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|ἅλλομαι|tr=hállomai|t=to jump]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The earliest example Lewis & Short and Georges give is figurative: Cicero, in ''De oratore'', advises that one should not leap straight into a particular kind of speech.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is mostly poetic.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Phaedrus uses it of someone leaping up with joy at a promised gift, and Columella of a stallion mounting a mare.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Ovid and Statius apply it to water and waves dashing up against something, as the Aegean against its islands in Statius.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) In accounts of fighting it meant to rush to the attack: Tacitus writes of men who attacked unexpectedly, and Statius uses it with an object, to assault someone.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Seneca the Elder uses it of throwing oneself gladly into a pursuit.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of leaping into a kind of speech.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of waves leaping up.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 15 BC–c. 50 AD – Phaedrus uses it of leaping up for joy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of a stallion mounting a mare.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of a sudden assault.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|leap]] towards or upon, jump up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of male animals, to [[m|en|mount]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # Of water, to [[m|en|dash]] against.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To make a sudden attack;^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) (with an object) to [[m|en|assault]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To rush or jump (into a course of action or a subject).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[assultim]]

+ * [[assultō]]

+ * [[assultus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}