assus Latin · revision 5936

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂ed-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈas.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈas.sus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''assus''' (feminine assa, neuter assum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*asso-|t=dried, roasted]], from [[ine-pro|*h₂d-to-|t=dried up]], a participle of the root [[ine-pro|*h₂ed-|t=to dry]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[xum|aso|t=burning?]], [[grc|ἄζω|tr=ázō|t=to dry]], [[hit|hāt-|t=to dry up]] and [[cs|ozditi|t=to dry malt]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL) Ernout and Meillet derived it from *arsus “burnt”, from [[ardeō]], and others from [[āreō]] “to be dry”, which de Vaan finds less likely.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) An inscription has the accusative [[m|la|asom]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ An early inscription has ''asom ferō'', “I bring roast meat”.^(OLD 2012) De Vaan dates it in literature from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant roasted or baked, as Plautus' bread and roast beef that steady the belly and Horace's roast thrushes.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of baths and sweating it meant dry, without water, of stonework laid without mortar, and ''assa nūtrīx'' was a dry-nurse.^(OLD 2012) In music ''assā vōce'' meant with the unaccompanied voice, without instruments.^(OLD 2012) Servius explains ''assae tībiae'' as pipes played alone, without a chorus.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Medieval Latin ''assa'' was a roast.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Archaic period – An inscription has ''asom ferō''.^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus speaks of roast beef.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace speaks of roast thrushes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus speaks of dry sweating baths.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|Roasted]], baked.^(OLD 2012)

+ # (Of baths) dry, without water, (of stonework) without mortar.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(music)'' ''assā vōce'', with the unaccompanied voice.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[assa]]

+ * [[assefolium]]

+ * [[assō]]

+ * [[assum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[āreō]]

+ * [[ardeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}