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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Naevius|origins=ine-pro *h₁ey-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈa.be.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈaː.be.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''abeō''' (present infinitive abīre, perfect active abiī or abīvī, supine abitum); irregular conjugation, impersonal in the passive^(Wiktionary)
+ Plautus has the imperative ''abei'' and ''abin'' for ''abīsne''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[ab-]] “away” and [[eō]] “to go”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨eō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*ei-|t=to go]], from [[ine-pro|*h₁ey-|t=to go]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Naevius and Plautus.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Naevius c. 235–200 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to go away, depart, as in Plautus; to go off with a purpose; to forsake, desert, or go over to another side, as in Cicero; to pass away, die, as in Lucilius; to come off from an encounter in some way, as in Cato.^(OLD 2012) Of things it meant to depart; to pass into or spread through; to change into, become, as in Varro; to disappear, cease; of time, to pass; to give up a task, as in Naevius; to pass from someone's control; to turn aside; and to digress from a subject, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to go away.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses it of giving up.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of departing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it of dying.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To go away, [[m|en|depart]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To desert; to go over to.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To pass away, die.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To come off (well or badly).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To pass into; to change into.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To disappear, cease, (of time) to pass.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To give up; to [[m|en|digress]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[abitiō]]
+ * [[abitus]]
+ * [[trānsabeō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[eō]]
+ * [[exeō]]
+ * [[redeō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}