insusurro Latin · revision 36958

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ĩː.sʊˈsʊr.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [in.suˈs̬ur.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnsusurrō''' (present infinitive īnsusurrāre, perfect active īnsusurrāvī, supine īnsusurrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|susurrō|t2=to whisper]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan lists the simple verb, from Terence on, as a derivative of [[m|la|susurrus|t=whisper, soft rustling]], which he takes to be onomatopoeic, imitating whispering with reduplication, a hissing sibilant and ⟨rr⟩; the noun may still be built on [[ine-pro|*suer-|t=to resound]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Cicero on: in the Verrines he speaks of something being whispered in someone's ear, ''in aurem … īnsusurrātum''.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Intransitively it means to whisper, usually into someone's ear, as in Cicero and in Suetonius' account of Caligula talking in secret with the Capitoline Jupiter.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Transitively it means to say something in a whisper: Cicero writes that Epicharmus keeps whispering his maxim to him,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Seneca speaks of vows whispered to the gods.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also came to mean to suggest or hint: Cicero says that the west wind itself whispers that it is time to sail.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ Christian writers such as Tertullian, Ambrose and Augustine continue to use it.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of whispering in someone's ear.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of vows whispered to the gods.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of Caligula whispering with the Capitoline Jupiter.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To [[m|en|whisper]], especially into someone's ear.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To say in a whisper.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|suggest]], hint, [[m|en|insinuate]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[insusurratio]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}