liquesco Latin · revision 9429

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [lɪˈkʷeːs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [liˈkʷɛs.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''liquēscō''' (present infinitive liquēscere, perfect active licuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[liqueō]] “to be liquid” with the inchoative suffix [[-scō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨liqueō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*(w)likʷ-ē-|t=to be liquid]], perhaps from [[ine-pro|*wleykʷ-|t=to make moist]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

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

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to become liquid, melt, as in Livy's melting snow and Virgil's wax, and to become clear and limpid, of water standing a while.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid used it of corpses that putrefy, the grammarians of the liquid consonants merging with others, and Cicero figuratively of growing soft, effeminate.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of melting wax.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of melting snow.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|melt]], become liquid.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To become clear.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To putrefy, (figurative) to grow soft, [[m|en|effeminate]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[colliquēscō]]

+ * [[dēliquēscō]]

+ * [[ēliquescō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[liqueō]]

+ * [[liquidus]]

+ * [[liquor]]

+ * [[liquefaciō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}