concinno

Forms

concinnō (present infinitive concinnāre, perfect active concinnāvī, supine concinnātum); first conjugation^[1]

Etymology

Its origin is uncertain.^[2][3] Wiktionary takes it as a verb from Latin concinnus (“well arranged, elegant”), from con- and cinnus.^[1] Nonius derived it from cinnus, which he says was a drink made of many liquids, and the TLL thinks he may be right.^[3] The OLD only compares that word.^[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

The TLL finds it from Naevius and Plautus on; in Plautus a bird-catcher gets his fowling floor ready.^[3][2]

Semantic evolution

It is to make ready or repair, and to arrange suitably: Festus explains it as putting together fitly, and Seneca uses it of Corinthian bronzes arranged with fussy care.^[2][3] Plautus, who uses it most, has it of making up great piles of dishes, of raising bruises on a slave's shoulders, and of making a wife weep at a departure.^[2][4] Lewis & Short note that it is mostly ante-classical and post-Augustan.^[4] The grammarian Dositheus records a deponent concinnor.^[3] Church Latin glosses it to fit together carefully, frame, contrive, prepare.^[5]

Timeline

• c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses it.^[3][6]
• c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of preparing, concocting and causing.^[2][6]
• 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca the Younger of arranging bronzes.^[2][6]

Meanings

Verb

1. To prepare, make ready; to repair, put right, touch up.^[2][4][1]
2. To arrange suitably, set in order, put together.^[2][4][5]
3. To make up, construct, concoct.^[2][5]
4. To bring about, cause; with an adjective, to make, render.^[2]

Word family

• concinnātīcius
• concinnātiō
• concinnātor
• concinnis
• exconcinnō
• praeconcinnatus
• reconcinnō

Related words

• concinnus
• concinnitās

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d e f Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
5. ^ a b c Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
6. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de