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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]

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