intepeo Latin · revision 36882

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=57/46–12 BC, Propertius|origins=la tepeō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪnˈtɛ.pe.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [inˈtɛː.pe.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intepeō''' (present infinitive intepēre, perfect active intepuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

+ Georges assigns the perfect ''intepuī'' to [[intepesco|alt=intepēscō]] rather than to this verb.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|tepeō|t2=to be warm]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan traces the simple verb to [[itc-pro|*tep-ē-|t=to be warm]] and [[ine-pro|*t(e)p-eh₁-|t=to be warm]], though he notes that the verb itself has no direct cognates outside Latin except perhaps in Albanian.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ Words from the same root include [[sga|té|t=hot]] and [[sa|तपति|tr=tápati|t=to heat, become hot]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Propertius, who says that the Umbrian lake grows warm with summer waters: ''lacus aestīvīs intepet Umber aquīs''.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a rare poetic word for being lukewarm or moderately warm.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Propertius the reading is disputed: Housman read the simple verb ''tepet'' instead.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) Persius uses it of the Ligurian coast being warm for him in winter, and Statius of a burnt hydra still warm in its waters.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ In Late Latin it was used figuratively of growing lukewarm in faith: Cassiodorus describes a man admirable in persevering prayer who did not grow lukewarm under any mockery.^(TLL) The MLW records it in medieval Latin in the sense “to be lukewarm, to have had enough”.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius uses it of a lake growing warm in summer.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 34–62 AD – Persius uses it of the Ligurian coast.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius uses it of the burnt hydra's waters.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 485–c. 580 AD – Cassiodorus uses it figuratively of zeal growing lukewarm.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To be [[m|en|lukewarm]] or moderately [[m|en|warm]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Late Latin, figurative)'' To grow lukewarm, slacken (in zeal).^(TLL)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' To be lukewarm; to have had enough.^(MLW)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[intepēscō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}