lacesso Latin · revision 8281

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la laciō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɫaˈkɛs.soː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [laˈt͡ʃɛs.so]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lacessō''' (present infinitive lacessere, perfect active lacessīvī or lacessiī, supine lacessītum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[laciō]] “to entice” with the intensive suffix [[-essō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic ⟨*lak-i-⟩ “to draw, pull”, and Walde and Hofmann connected it with ⟨*lakʷ-⟩, the root of [[laqueus]] “noose”, but de Vaan notes that the Latin forms point to ⟨*lak-⟩, not ⟨*lakʷ-⟩, and suggests a link with [[lacer]] “torn”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of challenging someone to a contest.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to challenge to a contest, as in Plautus, and to provoke to hostile action, as in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', and Cicero has ''ferrō lacessere'' “to provoke with the sword”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Cicero also used it for arousing an action or feeling, and for harassing, vexing, and Virgil for assailing with repeated blows.^(OLD 2012)

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+ It was used of challenging an enemy to battle, and Terence uses it of provoking with words.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of provoking.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of repeated blows.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

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

+ # To [[m|en|provoke]], rouse.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To harass, vex.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To assail with blows.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[illacessītus]]

+ * [[lacessitio]]

+ * [[lacessitor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[laciō]]

+ * [[dēliciae]]

+ * [[illiciō]]

+ * [[ēliciō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}