elimino Latin · revision 8152

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Horace|origins=la līmen}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [eːˈliː.mɪ.noː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [eˈliː.mi.no]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēlīminō''' (present infinitive ēlīmināre, perfect active ēlīmināvī, supine ēlīminātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ex-]] “out” and [[līmen]] “threshold”, that is, “out of doors”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's citation for letting out secrets is from Horace, whom Köbler dates 65–8 BC.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to turn out of doors, and in the passive or reflexive to go outside.^(OLD 2012) Nonius glosses it as to throw out beyond the threshold, to go out, and to exclude.^(TLL) Horace uses it of letting secrets out, ''nē fīdōs inter amīcōs sit quī dicta forās ēlīminet'' “that there be none among faithful friends who carries words outside”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to eradicate, eliminate.^(Stelten 1995) It was borrowed into Italian ''eliminare'' and French ''éliminer'', and its participle ''ēlīminātus'' gave [[en|eliminate]] in the 1560s, “to thrust out of doors”.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 1560s – English ''eliminate'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To turn out of doors; reflexively, to go outside.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To let out (secrets).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To [[m|en|eradicate]], [[m|en|eliminate]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[līmen]]

+ * [[en|eliminate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}