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Etymology and origin of the Latin word corrogo

Confidence
Established
Formation
Derivation
First attested
81–43 BC, Cicero
Ultimate origin
Latin (rogō)
Etymology tree
inherited borrowed derived
Latin rogo
Latin derogo
Latin interrogo
French interroger
Latin interrogatio
Latin erogo
Latin rogatus
Latin rogatio
Latin praerogativus
Latin corrogo
Latin prorogo
Latin abrogo
Latin irrogo

Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ˈkɔr.rɔ.ɡoː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [ˈkɔr.ro.ɡo][1]

Forms

corrogō (present infinitive corrogāre, perfect active corrogāvī, supine corrogātum); first conjugation[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin con- + rogō (“to ask”),[2][3][1] also spelled ⟨conr-⟩.[2][4] De Vaan explains rogō as probably a verb made from a noun meaning “stretching out” or “request”, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃roǵ-o- (“stretching”).[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler records it first in Cicero;[6] in the speech Pro Quinctio Cicero uses it of gathering one's friends and supporters from the halls, and the Rhetorica ad Herennium has it of begging coals from the neighbours.[4][2]

Semantic evolution

Its two classical senses are “to collect by begging or asking” (money, goods, help) and “to call people together, summon”.[2][4] Cicero has it in the Verrines and the Philippics, Caesar in the Civil War, and Livy writes of collecting auxilia ab sociis, auxiliary troops from the allies.[2][4] Lewis and Short call it rare but found in good prose.[4] Quintilian, Pliny the Younger and Apuleius use it of summoning people.[2]

Timeline

  • 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of collecting money and of summoning people.[2][4][6]
  • c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it in the Civil War.[2][6]
  • 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of collecting troops from the allies.[4][6]
  • c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses both senses.[2][6]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To collect (money, goods, help) by begging or asking.[2][4]
  2. To invite or summon (people) to a gathering.[2][4]

Word family

  • corrogātiō
  • conrogāta

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 Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  5. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  6. ^ a b c d e Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
Cite this entry

“Corrogo.” Etymologically, 20 Oct. 2026, etymologically.com/la/corrogo. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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