lacio Latin · revision 6074

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=inherited|attested=Paulus ex Festo|origins=itc-pro *lak-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɫa.ki.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈlaː.t͡ʃi.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''laciō''' (present infinitive lacere, perfect active licuī, supine lactum); third (-iō variant) conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*lak-i-|t=to draw, pull]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Walde and Hofmann connected it with the root of [[laqueus]] “noose”, but de Vaan objects that *kʷi would rather give ⟨qui⟩, so a stem *lak- must be assumed, perhaps related to [[lacer]] “torn” if the verb first meant “to draw, attract”.^(de Vaan 2008) Possible Italic cognates are [[xve|lag[sto]|t=offered?]] and [[osc|kellaked]] if this is a reduplicated perfect.^(de Vaan 2008) Prósper derives it from the zero grade of [[ine-pro|*deh₃-|t=to give]], through “something offered to sight, decoy, deceit”.^(Wiktionary) Festus derived it from [[m|la|lax|t=deceit]].^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The simple verb is known only from Paulus' epitome of Festus, which glosses ''lacit'' as “leads into deceit”, and de Vaan thinks it likely a nonce form.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Its compounds are old: ''allicere'', ''ēlicere'', ''illicere'' and ''prōlicere'' are found from Plautus, ''pellicere'' from the Twelve Tables.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to entice, lure, inveigle, to draw into a trap.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Festus said that from it came [[alliciō]] and [[lacessō]], and the frequentatives [[lactō]], ''dēlectō'' and [[oblectō]].^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the compounds ''-lac-'' may simply have meant “to draw”, and de Vaan suggests that technical words such as ''colliciae'' “gutters” and ''sublica'' “stake” also belong here rather than to [[liqueō]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ Through [[dēlectō]] and [[ēliciō]] it is the source of [[en|delight]] and [[en|elicit]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses ''allicere'', ''illicere'' and ''lactāre''.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 2nd century AD – Festus explains ''lacit''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|entice]], [[m|en|lure]], inveigle.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[alliciō]]

+ * [[dēliciō]]

+ * [[ēliciō]]

+ * [[illiciō]]

+ * [[lacessō]]

+ * [[lactō]]

+ * [[pelliciō]]

+ * [[prōliciō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dēlicus]]

+ * [[laqueus]]

+ * [[liqueō]]

+ * [[lacer]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}