coemo

Pronunciation

• Classical: [ˈko.ɛ.moː]^[1]
• Ecclesiastical: [ˈkɔː.e.mo]^[1]

Forms

coëmō (present infinitive coëmere, perfect active coēmī, supine coēmptum); third conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin con- + emō (“to buy”).^[2][3] De Vaan traces emō to Proto-Italic *eme/o- (“to take”) and Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-e/o- (“to take”), comparing Lithuanian im̃ti (“to take”) and Oscan emmens (“bought”).^[4] Lewis & Short note a contracted form cōmō.^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

Lewis & Short quote it first from Terence.^[5][6]

Semantic evolution

It is to buy together or buy up, in Caesar, Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Suetonius and Juvenal.^[5][2] The Monumentum Ancyranum, the Res Gestae of Augustus, spells ⟨coempto⟩.^[3] Church Latin glosses it to buy, purchase together.^[7]

Timeline

• 190–159 BC – Terence uses it.^[5][6]
• 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^[5][6]
• c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it.^[5][6]

Meanings

Verb

1. To buy up, purchase together.^[2][5][1][7]

Word family

• coēmptiō
• coemptor

Related words

• emō

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 Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
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. ^ a b c d e f g Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
6. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
7. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson