intabesco Latin · revision 36610

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=65–8 BC, Horace|origins=ine-pro *teh₂-bʰ-eh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪn.taːˈbeːs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [in.taˈbɛs.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intābēscō''' (present infinitive intābēscere, perfect active intābuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|tābēscō|t2=to melt, waste away]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan derives the simple verb from [[m|la|tābeō]], from [[itc-pro|*tāf-ē-|t=to be melting]] and [[ine-pro|*teh₂-bʰ-eh₁-|t=to be melting]]; the sense “melt away” developed into “waste away”, the basis of all later Latin uses.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|τήκω|tr=tḗkō|t=to melt]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Horace is its first author: in the ''Epodes'' eyes fixed on food waste away, ''intābuissent pūpulae''.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) An older reading of it in Cicero's ''De natura deorum'' was an error for the simple verb.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to melt or dissolve: Ovid uses it of wax melting in a gentle fire and of a lead sling bullet melting in mid-air.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Of living beings it meant to waste away or pine: in Ovid Envy wastes away at the sight of men's success, Persius wishes that some may see virtue and pine at having left it, and Seneca uses it with a dative, to waste away with grief.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Columella has a vine that withers past all recovery, and Quintilian an orator wearing himself out weighing his words.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of eyes wasting away.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of melting wax and of Envy wasting away.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of wasting away with grief.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 34–62 AD – Persius uses it of pining with regret.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of an orator wearing himself out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|melt]], [[m|en|dissolve]] away.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To waste away, [[m|en|pine]] (with grief, envy or illness); of plants, to [[m|en|wither]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tābēscō]]

+ * [[tābēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}