collabor Latin · revision 9210

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=la lābor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔlˈlaː.bɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [kolˈlaː.bor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''collābor''' (present infinitive collābī, perfect active collāpsus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''conlābor'', and an inscription has ''conlabsum''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[con-]] “together” and [[lābor]] “to slip, fall”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

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

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Plautus it meant to slip off to meet someone, and later to fall in ruins, collapse, as of buildings in Livy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Virgil people fall down from exhaustion or wounds, and in Seneca the mind gives way and power and fortune collapse.^(OLD 2012) Gaffiot cites ''collābī ante pedēs'' “to collapse at someone's feet”.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Its participle ''collāpsus'' gave [[en|collapse]] in 1732, “to fall together through loss of support”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

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

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of buildings.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1732 – English ''collapse'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To fall in ruins, [[m|en|collapse]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To fall down (from exhaustion).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To give way, fail.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[collapsio]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lābor]]

+ * [[lāpsus]]

+ * [[en|collapse]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}