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Latin
Etymology
From po- + arceō.
Pronunciation
Verb
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.
239 BCE – 169 BCE,
Ennius,
Telamo apud Nonium Marcellum 160.6:
- deum mē sentit facere pietās, cīvium pō̆rcet pudor.
2nd century BCE, Marcus Pacuvius,
Atalanta apud Nonium Marcellum 160.2:
- mī gnāte, ut verear ēloquī, pō̆rcet pudor.
170 BCE – c. 86 BCE,
Accius,
Epigoni apud Nonium Marcellum 160.5:
- quibus oculīs quisquam nostrum poterit illōrum optuī
vultūs, quōs jam ab armīs annī pō̆rcent?
Usage notes
The perfect stem porxī appears only once in a gloss by the grammarian Charisius.
Conjugation
References
- “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