admordeo Latin · revision 9845

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂merd-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [adˈmɔr.de.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [adˈmɔr.de.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''admordeō''' (present infinitive admordēre, perfect active admomordī, supine admorsum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus has the perfect ''admemordī''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|mordeō|t1=at|t2=to bite]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨mordeō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*mord-eje-]], from [[ine-pro|*h₂mord-eye-|t=to crush, bite]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of fleecing someone.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to bite at, gnaw, bite into, as in Propertius and Silius, and in Plautus' comic language to extract money from, fleece.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It survives in Old French ''amordre''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius uses it of biting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To bite at, [[m|en|gnaw]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To extract money from, [[m|en|fleece]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[admorsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[commordeō]]

+ * [[dēmordeō]]

+ * [[immordeō]]

+ * [[mordeō]]

+ * [[obmordeō]]

+ * [[praemordeō]]

+ * [[remordeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}