praegusto Latin · revision 36623

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=43 BC–18 AD, Ovid|origins=ine-pro *ǵ(e)us-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [prae̯ˈɡʊs.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [preˈɡus.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''praegustō''' (present infinitive praegustāre, perfect active praegustāvī, supine praegustātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prae-|gustō|t1=before|t2=to taste]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan takes [[m|la|gustō]] as an intensive built on an old past participle [[itc-pro|*gusto-|t=tasted]], from [[ine-pro|*ǵ(e)us-|t=to taste]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|जोषति|tr=jóṣati|t=to enjoy]] and [[grc|γεύομαι|tr=geúomai|t=to taste]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Ovid and Livy on.^(TLL) In Ovid's ''Amores'' someone is told to push back any food that the husband (''vir'') has tasted first, ''quod praegustāverit ipse''.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to taste food or drink before someone else, in the manner of a food taster: Pliny the Elder has the participle ''praegustantēs'' as a noun for the tasters,^(Georges 1913) and Livy reports as a prodigy that mice had nibbled the olives first.^(OLD 2012) Seneca used it figuratively of having a foretaste of pleasures.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) A second sense was to take a little of something beforehand, honey against catarrh in Pliny,^(OLD 2012) and in Juvenal the antidotes of the thrice-defeated king of Pontus.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) The Vulgate uses it of meat that beasts have tasted first.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Wiktionary lists [[it|pregustare]] and [[fr|prégoûter]] among its descendants.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of food a husband tastes first.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy reports mice that had tasted olives first as a prodigy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca speaks of having a foretaste of pleasures.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of taking honey beforehand.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal uses it of taking antidotes in advance.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of potions tasted first.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it of meat that beasts have tasted.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|taste]] first or before another.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To have a [[m|en|foretaste]] of.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To eat or drink a little of beforehand; to take (an [[m|en|antidote]]) in advance.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[praegustātor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[gustō]]

+ * [[gustus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}