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dapino

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ˈda.pɪ.noː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [ˈdaː.pi.no][1]

Forms

dapinō (present infinitive dapināre, perfect active dapināvī, supine dapinātum); first conjugation[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek δαπανάω (dapanáō, “to spend, consume”),[2][3][1] its sense perhaps influenced by daps (“sacrificial feast, meal”).[2][1] Lewis and Short, Georges and Gaffiot instead derive it directly from the Latin noun.[4][5][6] Wiktionary counts it a doublet of that noun and of damnum (“loss”).[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Its only instance is in Plautus' Captivi (line 897): aeternum tibi dapinabo victum, si vera autumas, “I will provide your keep for ever, if what you say is true”.[3][7]

Semantic evolution

The dictionaries read the single passage differently: the OLD takes it as “meet the cost of, provide for”,[2] while Lewis and Short, Georges and Gaffiot understand “serve up (a meal)”.[4][5][6]

Timeline

  • c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it once, in the Captivi.[3][8]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To meet the cost of, to provide (someone's keep).[2]
  2. To serve up (food), to set before someone.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  4. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  5. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
  6. ^ a b c Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  7. ^ Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
  8. ^ Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de