umeo Latin · revision 7699

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=inherited|attested=Virgil|origins=itc-pro *ūmo-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈuː.me.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈuː.me.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ūmeō''' (present infinitive ūmēre); second conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[itc-pro|*ūmo-|t=wet]], of uncertain origin.^(Wiktionary) It has traditionally been derived from [[ine-pro|*wegʷ-|t=wet]] and compared with [[grc|ὑγρός|tr=hugrós|t=wet]] and [[non|vǫkr|t=moist]], as the OLD does with [[ūvēscō]].^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012) The spelling ⟨hūmeō⟩ in manuscripts is less correct.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis and Short call it poetic and post-Augustan, most frequent in the present participle, and Gaffiot cites Virgil's ''ūmentia lītora'' “wet shores”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Virgil 70–19 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to be moist, damp, wet, as Virgil's wet shores, Ovid's place wet with warm water and lands that lie wet with marshes, and of cheeks wet with tears.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Its derivatives ''ūmor'' and ''ūmidus'' gave [[en|humor]] and [[en|humid]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses ''ūmentia lītora''.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of wet places.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To be moist, damp, wet.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[hūmor]]

+ * [[ūmectus]]

+ * [[ūmefaciō]]

+ * [[ūmidus]]

+ * [[ūmor]]

+ * [[ūmēscō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[uvidus]]

+ * [[en|humid]]

+ * [[en|humor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}