corrado

Forms

corrādō (present infinitive corrādere, perfect active corrāsī, supine corrāsum); third conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin con- + rādō (“to scrape, shave”).^[2][1][3] The verb rādō goes back to Proto-Italic *rasd-e/o-.^[4] The spelling ⟨conrādō⟩ also occurs.^[2][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Plautus has it first, in the Poenulus, of scraping together a sum of three hundred gold Philippi.^[2][5]

Semantic evolution

The literal sense was to rake or sweep together: Varro uses it of raking up stalks in the meadows at haymaking, and Lucretius of the wind sweeping particles out of the air.^[2][3] From the start it was used of scraping money together, as in Plautus and Terence,^[2] and of gathering up all one's goods.^[6][7] Lucretius applies it figuratively to gathering arguments to win belief.^[2][8] The jurist Celsus uses it of scraping off plaster and paintings,^[2] and Orosius of laying waste.^[8]

In medieval Latin it meant to scrape together, to gather or bring together (writings, sayings, possessions) and to grab greedily; it was confused with corrōdō.^[9] English has the learned borrowing corrade.^[1]

Timeline

• c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of scraping money together.^[2][10]
• 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of money and of gathering all one's goods.^[2][10]
• 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of raking stalks together.^[2][10]
• 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of the wind and of arguments.^[2][10]
• 417/418 AD – Orosius uses it of laying waste.^[8][10]

Meanings

Verb

1. To rake or sweep together.^[2][6]
2. To scrape together, amass with difficulty (money, arguments).^[2][8]
3. To scrape off.^[2]
4. (Late Latin) To devastate.^[8]
5. (Medieval Latin) To gather or bring together; to grab greedily.^[9]

Related words

• rastrum
• rastellus
• abrado
• English corrade

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n 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. ^ Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
6. ^ a b Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
7. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
8. ^ a b c d e Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
9. ^ a b Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
10. ^ a b c d e Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de