apiscor Latin · revision 5938

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=Naevius|origins=ine-pro *h₁ep-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''apīscor''' (present infinitive apīscī, perfect active aptus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*ap-(e)i-|t=to get, seize]], [[inh|ine-pro|*h₁p-i-|t=to get, grab]], with the suffix [[m|la|-scō]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Cognate with [[hit|epzi|t=takes]], [[sa|आप|tr=ā́pa|t=has reached]] and [[ae|āpa|t=has reached]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan sees no need to separate it from [[apiō]] “to tie”, which kept the narrower sense; so [[m|la|aptus]] means both “tied” and “obtained”.^(de Vaan 2008) The perfect [[coepī]] “I began”, from *co-ēpī, belongs to it.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Naevius; the oldest texts also have an active ''apīscō''.^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler dates Naevius c. 235–200 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to reach for and seize, grasp, as Plautus' ''sine mē hominem apīscī'' “let me catch the man”, and then to get, obtain, secure, as Terence's “we have obtained the life of the gods”.^(OLD 2012) Lucretius uses it of diseases that seize the body.^(Gaffiot 2016) It was rarer than its compound [[adipīscor]], but common again in Tacitus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of catching a man.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of obtaining.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it often.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To seize, [[m|en|grasp]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To get, [[m|en|obtain]], secure.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adipīscor]]

+ * [[redipiscor]]

+ * [[indipīscor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[epulum]]

+ * [[optō]]

+ * [[apiō]]

+ * [[aptus]]

+ * [[coepī]]

+ * [[en|adept]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}