calesco Latin · revision 9462

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cato|origins=ine-pro *ḱelh₁-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''calēscō''' (present infinitive calēscere); third conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[caleō]] “to be warm” with the inchoative suffix [[-scō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces ⟨caleō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*kalē-]], from [[ine-pro|*ḱl̥h₁-éh₁-|t=to be hot]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Cato, of growing warm.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cato 234–149 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to grow warm or hot, to be heated, as in Cato and Lucretius, and Lewis & Short call it rare but classical.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it meant to grow hot with love or desire, as in Terence and Ovid, and to be stirred, as in Ovid's ''est deus in nōbīs, agitante calēscimus illō'' “there is a god in us; when he stirs, we glow”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ English borrowed it as the rare ''calesce''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of love.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of heat.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To grow warm or hot.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To be inflamed (with love); to be stirred.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[excalesco]]

+ * [[incalēscō]]

+ * [[percalescō]]

+ * [[recalescō]]

+ * [[concalēscō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[caleō]]

+ * [[calidus]]

+ * [[calor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}