porceo
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpoːr.ke.oː/, [ˈpoːrkeoː] or IPA(key): /ˈpor.ke.oː/, [ˈpɔrkeoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.t͡ʃe.o/, [ˈpɔrt͡ʃeo]
- Note: there are no other examples of ŏ-ă hiatus from which to generalize the length of the resulting vowel; however, by the general rule a short vowel is simply deleted.
Verb edit
pō̆rceō (present infinitive pō̆rcēre); second conjugation, no perfect or supine stem
- (archaic) to keep or ward off or back, hinder, restrain
- c. 2nd century, Sextus Pompeius Festus, De verborum significatione 218. (This folk-etymology might yield evidence for short pǒrcēre):
- porcae appellantur rārī sulcī, quī dūcuntur aquae dērīvandae grātiā, dictī quod pō̆rcent, id est prohibent aquam frūmentīs nocēre.
- c. 165 BCE – 103 BCE, Gaius Lucilius, Saturae apud Nonium Marcellum 160.9:
- nōn tē porrō prōcēdere pō̆rcent.
- 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Menippeae apud Nonium Marcellum 160.8:
- hunc Cerēs, cibī ministra, frūgibus suīs pō̆rcet.
- 2nd century BCE, Marcus Pacuvius, Atalanta apud Nonium Marcellum 160.2:
- mī gnāte, ut verear ēloquī, pō̆rcet pudor.
Usage notes edit
The perfect stem porxī appears only once in a gloss by the grammarian Charisius.
Conjugation edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- “porceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- porceo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- porceo in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- “porceo” in volume 10/1, column 2741, line 54 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “arceō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 51