intepesco Latin · revision 36871

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=la tepeō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intepēscō''' (present infinitive intepēscere, perfect active intepuī); third conjugation^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|intepeō|-scō|t1=to be lukewarm]], an inchoative verb.^(OLD 2012) The verb [[m|la|intepeō]] is formed from [[m|la|in-]] and [[m|la|tepeō|t=to be warm]],^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*tep-ē-]] and [[ine-pro|*t(e)p-eh₁-|t=to be warm]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records the sense of growing warm from Virgil and Ovid on.^(TLL) In the ''Aeneid'' a sword-point grows warm: ''ut semel intepuit mucrō''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The opposite sense, of something hot that cools to lukewarm, appears from Seneca and Scribonius Largus on:^(TLL) Seneca writes of a spring that turned cool when it should have been hot,^(OLD 2012) and Columella uses it of the year.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is used of love warming a heart in Statius, and of passions that slacken, as cruelty that cools in Petronius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Ammianus spells it ⟨intepisc-⟩.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of a sword growing warm.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of growing warm.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of heat cooling down.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses it of cruelty that abates.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To become warm, warm up;^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) ''(figurative)'' to glow (with love).^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+ # To become [[m|en|lukewarm]], [[m|en|cool]] down.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative, of passions)'' To become less intense, [[m|en|slacken]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tepeō]]

+ * [[tepidus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}