abscondo Latin · revision 3839

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la condō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [apˈskɔn.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [abˈskɔn.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''abscondō''' (present infinitive abscondere, perfect active abscondī, supine absconditum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|abs-|condō|t1=away|t2=to put away, hide]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The perfect is [[m|la|abscondī]] or the older [[m|la|abscondidī]], used by Plautus, and a participle [[m|la|absconsum]] also appears.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has a miser worried that someone may sense where the gold is hidden.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to hide from view, to hide from danger, as Seneca's slave hiding his outlawed master, and in the passive or reflexive to hide oneself.^(OLD 2012) It meant to bury or plunge into something, as Virgil's corpses buried in pits, to shroud in darkness, and to keep secret.^(OLD 2012)

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+ It also meant to store or put away.^(Wiktionary) Romance kept it, as Spanish and Portuguese [[m|es|esconder]].^(Wiktionary) English ''abscond'', “to depart secretly”, was borrowed in the 1560s from French and Latin.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of hidden gold.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of burying corpses.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of a slave hiding his master.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1560s – English ''abscond'' is borrowed.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To hide, [[m|en|conceal]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To hide (from danger), ''(reflexive)'' to hide oneself.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To bury, [[m|en|immerse]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To shroud (in darkness).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To keep secret.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To store, put away.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[absconditē]]

+ * [[absconditor]]

+ * [[absconditus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[condo]]

+ * [[en|abscond]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}