indormio Latin · revision 36813

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la dormiō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪnˈdɔr.mi.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [inˈdɔr.mi.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''indormiō''' (present infinitive indormīre, perfect active indormīvī, supine indormītum); fourth conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|dormiō|t2=to sleep]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|dormiō]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*dormje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*drm-i̯e-|t=to sleep]],^(de Vaan 2008) and is cognate with [[grc|δαρθάνω|tr=darthánō|t=to fall asleep]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Cicero on,^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) who uses it figuratively of someone asleep over a matter: in the ''Philippics'' he asks whether torches are needed to wake “you” as you sleep over so great a cause (''tē tantae causae indormientem'').^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero also confesses to his brother that he has long been asleep over the task of cultivating a man,^(TLL)^(Gaffiot 2016) and Pliny the Younger speaks of being roused from long idleness.^(TLL)^(Gaffiot 2016) In the literal sense Horace has someone sleeping on sacks heaped up all around (''congestīs undique saccīs indormīs''),^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) and Petronius someone who fell asleep in another's embrace.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010) Curtius uses it of sleeping unaware of one's troubles, and a verse inscription says that fear never slept in a certain Heliades.^(TLL)

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+ In Vegetius' veterinary writings it meant to go numb, of a horse's jaw or shoulder.^(TLL)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of sleeping over an important matter.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of sleeping on heaped-up sacks.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses it of falling asleep in an embrace.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Curtius uses it of sleeping unaware of one's troubles.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 400 AD – Vegetius uses it of a horse's jaw going numb.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|sleep]] in or on something; to fall asleep over it.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To be [[m|en|negligent]] or careless about something, to sleep over it.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(TLL)

+ # ''(veterinary)'' To go [[m|en|numb]].^(TLL)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dormiō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The reading ''indormiat'' in Virgil's ''Georgics'' (2.506) is a false one for ''dormiat''.^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}