adinvenio

Pronunciation

• IPA (Classical): [a.dɪnˈwɛ.ni.oː]^[1]
• IPA (Ecclesiastical): [a.diɱˈvɛː.ni.o]^[1]

Forms

adinveniō (present infinitive adinvenīre, perfect active adinvēnī, supine adinventum); fourth conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin ad- + inveniō (“to find, invent”), with ⟨ad-⟩ as an intensive.^[2][3][1] ⟨inveniō⟩ is from in- and veniō (“to come”); de Vaan traces ⟨veniō⟩ to Proto-Italic *gʷn̥-je/o- (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥-ye/o- (“to come”).^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Lewis & Short cite the Vulgate, the Digest and Servius.^[3][5]

Semantic evolution

It meant to find out, devise, invent, and in the OLD to devise or invent in addition.^[2][3]

In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to find, come upon.^[6]

Meanings

Verb

1. To devise, invent (in addition); to find out.^[2][3]

Related words

• inveniō
• veniō

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
5. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
6. ^ Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson