vescor Latin · revision 5798

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=inherited|attested=Pacuvius|origins=ine-pro *wes-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈweːs.kɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈvɛs.kor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vēscor''' (present infinitive vēscī); third conjugation, deponent, no perfect or supine stems^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*wēs-(s)ke/o-|t=to feed, pasture]], from the root [[ine-pro|*wes-|t=pasture, food]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[sga|fess|t=food]], [[hit|𒌑𒂊𒅆|tr=wešai-|t=pasture]], [[ae|𐬬𐬁𐬯𐬙𐬭𐬀|tr=vāstra-|t=pasture]] and [[non|fist|t=nourishment]].^(de Vaan 2008) Walde and Hofmann's *vē-ēscor “to eat off”, from [[edō]], is unconvincing to de Vaan, and Lewis and Short connect [[ēsca]] “food”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The OLD calls it doubtful.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Pacuvius, whose line ''quī viget, vēscātur armīs'' means “let him who is strong make use of arms”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Pacuvius 220–130 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its oldest sense, in the tragic poets, was to make use of or enjoy something, with the ablative, as Pacuvius' arms and Accius' ancestral rewards.^(OLD 2012) Then it meant to feed on, to eat, as Cicero's Persians who fed on cress and the Pythagoreans forbidden to eat beans, and intransitively to take food, as Virgil's blessed feasting on the grass.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Cicero has ''vītālī vēscī aurā'' “to breathe the air of life”, after Lucretius and Virgil.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In late legal Latin it was to provide food for.^(OLD 2012) It has no Romance descendants.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius uses it of making use of arms.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius uses it of enjoying rewards.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero speaks of the Persians feeding on cress.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil's blessed feast on the grass.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make use of, [[m|en|enjoy]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To feed on, [[m|en|eat]].^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # To take food, eat.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''vēscī aurā'', to breathe, live.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[convēscor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[edō]]

+ * [[vestibulum]]

+ * [[ēsca]]

+ * [[pāscor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}