exaresco Latin · revision 36531

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la āreō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛk.saːˈreːs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eɡ.zaˈrɛs.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exārēscō''' (present infinitive exārēscere, perfect active exāruī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|ārēscō|t2=to become dry]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) the inchoative of [[m|la|āreō|t=to be dry]].^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of that verb, which goes back to [[itc-pro|*ās-ē-|t=to be dry]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂eh₁s-eh₁-|t=to be dry]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus on.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL) In the ''Rudens'' wet clothes are promised to dry out, and in the ''Miles gloriosus'' a speaker says he has not yet dried up for pleasant things.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In its literal sense it was used of things drying out completely and of plants shrivelling: Varro of harvested grain, Columella of clay, and Suetonius of a wood that withered to the roots.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) With moisture as subject it meant to dry up: Cicero says that a tear dries quickly, and Caesar that springs dried up in the heat.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The jurists used it of lakes and pools.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Figuratively it meant to die out or become obsolete: Cicero says that certain speeches have so dried up that they can hardly be seen, and that the old Roman wit has dried up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Apuleius writes that pity had dried up entirely,^(OLD 2012) and Ammianus that music had not quite dried up among some people.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of drying clothes and, figuratively, of a person.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of grain drying out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of tears and of speeches and wit that have died out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of springs drying up in the heat.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius says that pity has dried up.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To become thoroughly dry; of plants, to [[m|en|wither]] or [[m|en|shrivel]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # Of moisture, springs or tears: to [[m|en|dry up]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To die out, become [[m|en|obsolete]], disappear.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[āreō]]

+ * [[ārēscō]]

+ * [[āridus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}