commigro

Pronunciation

• IPA (Classical): [ˈkɔm.mɪ.ɡroː]^[1]
• IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkɔm.mi.ɡro]^[1]

Forms

commigrō (present infinitive commigrāre, perfect active commigrāvī, supine commigrātum); first conjugation^[1] Also spelled conmigrō.^[2]

Etymology

It is from Latin con- + migrō (“to move, migrate”).^[3][1] De Vaan derives ⟨migrō⟩ from ⟨*migro-⟩, Proto-Indo-European *h₂mi-gʷ-ro- (“changing”), cognate with Ancient Greek ἀμείβω (ameíbō, “to change”).^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Gaffiot cites Cicero's letter to his brother, in domum tuam commigrābis “you will move into your house”.^[5] Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^[6]

Semantic evolution

It meant to move one's home with all one's belongings, go and live elsewhere, migrate, as in Cicero, and Lewis & Short call it rare but in good prose.^[3][2][5]

In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to travel, go, migrate.^[7] English commigrate is from it.^[1]

Timeline

• 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^[5][6]

Meanings

Verb

1. To move house, migrate.^[3][2]

Word family

• commigrātiō

Related words

• migrō
• ēmigrō
• immigrō
• dēmigrō

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
3. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University 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. ^ a b c Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
6. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
7. ^ Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson