furor Latin · revision 8236

+ {{homograph|1|steal}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈfuː.rɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈfuː.ror]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fūror''' (present infinitive fūrārī, perfect active fūrātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The verb “to steal” is formed from [[fūr]] “thief” as a first-conjugation deponent.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has someone spying out places to come and steal.^(OLD 2012) Cato speaks of stealing pasture from boys.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to steal or pilfer, as Cicero of Verres saying he bought what he had robbed and stolen.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Cicero and Vitruvius use it of literary theft, and Tacitus of an enemy “better at raiding” than at open war.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Figuratively it meant to obtain by stealth, as Cicero of a citizenship not stolen, or to withdraw secretly: Virgil has Palinurus told to steal his tired eyes from toil.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It survives in Romanian ''fura'' and Italian ''furare''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of coming to steal.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato, in a speech.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of theft and plagiarism.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, “steal your weary eyes from toil”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|steal]], purloin, plunder.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To [[m|en|plagiarize]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To obtain improperly or by stealth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To withdraw secretly, take away, ''(reflexive)'' steal away.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[fūrāx]]

+ * [[fūrātor]]

+ * [[suffūror]]

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+ {{homograph|2|madness, rage}}

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+ * [[fūr]]

+ * [[furātrīna]]

+ * [[fūrtim]]

+ * [[fūrtīvus]]

+ * [[fūrtō]]

+ * [[fūrtum]]