canesco Latin · revision 36943

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cānēscō''' (present infinitive cānēscere, perfect active cānuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cāneō|-ēscō|t1=to be white, grey]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) and the TLL derives it straight from [[m|la|cānus|t=grey, hoary]], the base of that verb.^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The adjective goes back to [[itc-pro|*kasno-|t=grey]] and [[ine-pro|*ḱh₁s-no-|t=grey]], and is cognate with [[goh|hasan|t=grey, shining]] and [[ang|hasu|t=grey-brown]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Scaevola and Cicero on.^(TLL) In the ''De legibus'' Cicero says that an oak will grow grey for countless ages (''cānēscet saeclīs innumerābilibus'').^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero also uses it of his own oratory growing grey with age.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Ovid writes of pastures whitening in the sun's heat, of seas whitening under oars, of roofs grey with neglect, and of Ceres complaining that Iasion is growing grey.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Manilius and Lucan use it of foaming water,^(TLL) Seneca of Mount Ida white with snow,^(TLL) and Pliny the Elder of hair turning grey and of a flower that soon fades to white.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Solinus says that the fires in Minerva's temple never turn grey into ash,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) and Quintilian and Petronius use it, like Cicero, of style.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Jerome and Sidonius still use it of foaming waves.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of an oak growing old and of his oratory growing grey.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of pastures, seas and roofs whitening.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of Mount Ida white with snow.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of hair and flowers.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * first half of the 3rd century AD – Solinus uses it of fire turning to ash.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 383–419/420 AD – Jerome uses it of foaming waves.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To become white, [[m|en|whiten]] (on the surface).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To grow grey with age, become [[m|en|hoary]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To [[m|en|grow old]]; of style, to grow feeble.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[incānēscō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cāneō]]

+ * [[cānus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}