blatero Latin · revision 7234

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=onomatopoeia|attested=Afranius|origins=la blatiō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''blaterō''' (present infinitive blaterāre, perfect active blaterāvī, supine blaterātum); first conjugation, no passive^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is onomatopoeic, from an earlier *blat(t)elāre, from [[blatiō]] “to babble” with a frequentative suffix.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) It is also spelled ⟨blatterō⟩, though the verse of Afranius and Horace does not allow the double ⟨t⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Paulus' epitome of Festus relates it to [[grc|βλάξ|tr=bláx|t=stupid]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Afranius, of uttering in a babbling way.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Afranius to the second half of the 2nd century BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to utter or say in a prating way, and intransitively to prate, babble, talk idly, as in Horace's ''Satires'', and Lewis and Short call it colloquial and mostly ante- and post-classical.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Suetonius uses it of the cry of certain animals.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein explains that ''garrīre'' refers to fondness for talking, ''fābulārī'' to the emptiness of the talk, and ''blatīre'' with its intensive ''blaterāre'' to its foolishness.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ It was borrowed as Italian ''blaterare'' and French ''blatérer''.^(Wiktionary) Etymonline suggests that Latin ''blatīre'' may have prompted Spenser's coinage [[en|blatant]] in 1596.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 2nd century BC – Afranius uses it of babbling.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of prating.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of animal cries.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it, and the noun ''blaterō'' “babbler”.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To utter in a babbling way.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To prate, [[m|en|babble]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of animals, to cry.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adblaterō]]

+ * [[blateratio]]

+ * [[blateratus]]

+ * [[dēblaterō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[blatiō]]

+ * [[garriō]]

+ * [[en|blatant]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A noun ''blaterō, -ōnis'' “babbler” is in Gellius, who lists it with ''locutuleius'' and ''linguāx'' among old words for chatterers.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}