verro Latin · revision 7216

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈwɛr.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈvɛr.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''verrō''' (present infinitive verrere, perfect active verrī, supine versum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*wors-o-]], from [[ine-pro|*wers-|t=to wipe, drag on the ground]].^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[sq|zvarrë|t=dragging on the ground]], [[grc|ἔρρω|tr=érrhō|t=to move slowly, limp]] and [[non|vǫrr|t=stroke]].^(Wiktionary) The OLD also compares [[cu|връхѫ|tr=vrŭchǫ|t=to thresh]].^(OLD 2012) Plautus has the older ⟨vorrō⟩, and the perfect ⟨-verrī⟩ is found only in compounds.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of sweeping a place clean, as ''aedēs verrere'' “to sweep the house”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to sweep clean with a broom, as in Plautus and Cicero's ''quī verrunt'' “those who sweep”, and Livy's mothers sweeping the temples with their hair.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant to sweep together, as in Horace, to sweep away, as in Columella, and in Virgil to brush the ground with something trailing, or to sweep the sea in rowing, of winds to sweep over.^(OLD 2012) In Lucretius it meant to carry off with irresistible force.^(OLD 2012) The grammarians disagreed about its perfect, and Macrobius says neither ''versī'' nor ''verrī'' was in use.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to sweep.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Spanish ''barrer'' and Portuguese ''varrer''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of sweeping a house.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of sweeping along.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of sweeping the sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|sweep]] clean.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To sweep together; to sweep away.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To brush, trail over; to skim the sea.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To sweep along with force.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[converrō]]

+ * [[dēverrō]]

+ * [[*versūra]]

+ * [[*versōria]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[āverruncō]]

+ * [[Āverruncus]]

+ * [[versūra]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}