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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=43 BC–18 AD, Ovid|origins=la viscum}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''viscō''' (present infinitive viscāre, perfect active viscāvī, supine viscātum); first conjugation^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|viscum|-ō|t1=mistletoe; birdlime]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan takes [[m|la|viscum]] as an inherited word or a European loanword for the mistletoe or another fruit-bearing tree, comparing [[grc|ἰξός|tr=ixós|t=mistletoe; birdlime]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Conte cites it first from Ovid's ''Ars amatoria''.^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to catch or hold fast with [[m|en|birdlime]], and also with other sticky substances.^(OLD 2012) Juvenal has it of a husband's lips glued with his wife's face cream (''hinc miseri viscantur labra mariti'', “from this the poor husband's lips are glued”),^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) and the physician Theodorus Priscianus of pus that sticks between the joints.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it in the ''Ars amatoria''.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal uses it of lips glued with face cream.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 400 AD – Theodorus Priscianus uses it of pus sticking between the joints.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To catch or hold fast with [[m|en|birdlime]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To smear with something sticky;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) ''(passive)'' to be glued, stick.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[viscātus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}