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corrogo

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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