percuro Latin · revision 36752

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=59 BC–17 AD, Livy|origins=la cūra}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''percūrō''' (present infinitive percūrāre, perfect active percūrāvī, supine percūrātum); first conjugation^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|cūrō|t2=to take care of, treat]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan derives [[m|la|cūrō]] from [[m|la|cūra|t=care]], which he takes from [[itc-pro|*kʷois-ā-|t=care, watch]], possibly from [[ine-pro|*kʷei-s-|t=to heed]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it in prose from Livy on.^(TLL) Livy uses it of a wound: Hannibal set out to attack Victumulae with his wound hardly healed (''vixdum satis percurato vulnere'').^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Curtius has the same phrase of a wound not yet healed,^(TLL) Columella says that a sore which has suppurated heals slowly,^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) and Pliny the Elder uses it of treating scrofulous swellings daily until they are cured.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also said of the remedy: Seneca writes of waters that cure chronic ailments the doctors had given up on.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)

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+ Seneca used it figuratively of the mind: we must cure the sick mind and free it from its vices (''percurare mentem aegram'').^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Conte 2010) In Late Latin it is frequent in the veterinary writers Chiron and Vegetius and in the medical writer Theodorus Priscianus.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of a healed wound.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of curing ailments and, figuratively, the mind.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of a sore that heals slowly.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of curing scrofulous swellings.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4th century AD – The veterinary treatise of Chiron uses it often.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 400 AD – Vegetius uses it in his treatise on veterinary medicine.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|heal]] completely, [[m|en|cure]] (a wound, disease or patient).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

+ # ''(of a remedy)'' To cure.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To cure (the mind).^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Manuscripts confuse it with [[procuro|alt=prōcūrō]] and [[percurro|alt=percurrō]].^(TLL) Lewis & Short note that it is perhaps not found before Augustus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}