resulto Latin · revision 4647
15 Oct 2026, 23:54 by bogdan “New Latin entry (sources: de Vaan, OLD, Lewis & Short, TLL...)” current version
Initial text
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Lucretius|origins=la saliō}}
+
+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [rɛˈsʊɫ.toː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [reˈs̬ul.to]^(Wiktionary)
+
+ ==Forms==
+ '''resultō''' (present infinitive resultāre, perfect active resultāvī, supine resultātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|resiliō|-tō|t1=to rebound]], a frequentative.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Etymonline) Wiktionary also allows a formation from [[m|la|re-]] and [[salto|alt=saltō]] “to dance, leap”.^(Wiktionary)
+
+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Lucretius says bodies that collide spring back.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Lucretius 96–55 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
+
+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to spring or leap back, to rebound, used mostly of inanimate things and in poetry and post-Augustan prose, as Virgil's spears rebounding from helmet and shield.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Ovid uses it of a fish jumping away and Apuleius of a bird hopping off the ground.^(OLD 2012) Of sound it meant to echo, reverberate, as Virgil and Pliny the Elder say echoes are hostile to bees.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+
+ In medieval Latin it came to mean to follow as a consequence.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) Its descendants include [[fr|résulter]], [[it|risultare]] and [[es|resultar]].^(Wiktionary) [[en|result]] is recorded in the early 15th century as a verb.^(Etymonline)
+
+ ==Timeline==
+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of rebounding bodies.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of spears and of echoes.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of echoes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * early 15th century – English ''result'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To leap back, spring away.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To [[m|en|rebound]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To [[m|en|echo]], resound.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' To follow as a consequence, [[m|en|result]].^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
+
+ ==Word family==
+ * [[resultatio]]
+ * [[resultātum]]
+
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[resilio|alt=resiliō]]
+ * [[en|result]]
+
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}