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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [deːˈproː.moː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [deˈprɔː.mo][1]

Forms

dēprōmō (present infinitive dēprōmere, perfect active dēprōmpsī, supine dēprōmptum); third conjugation[1] Apuleius has the participle dēprōmtus.[2]

Etymology

It is from Latin dē- + prōmō (“to bring out”).[2][1][3] De Vaan lists prōmō among the compounds of emō in its old sense “to take”, which he traces to Proto-Italic *eme/o- and Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-e/o- (“to take”).[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Its first quotation is in Plautus' Trinummus: take out from there as much gold as is enough.[2][3]

Semantic evolution

It is to bring out, fetch or produce, usually from a container or store: Cicero has money from the treasury, Horace Caecuban wine from the cellars, Virgil an arrow from the quiver.[2][5] It is also to draw out things that are not material, as legal knowledge to be drawn from experts or books in Cicero, and to bring out or utter thoughts: Horace stores up and arranges what he can soon bring out.[2] Lewis & Short call it rare but classical.[6] Church Latin glosses it to bring or pour out, produce, fetch.[7]

Timeline

  • c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of taking gold out.[2][8]
  • 81–43 BC – Cicero of money from the treasury and of knowledge from books.[2][5][8]
  • 65–8 BC – Horace of wine and of thoughts brought out.[2][5][8]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To bring out, fetch, produce, usually from a container or store.[2][6][1][7]
  2. To draw out (knowledge and the like) from a source.[2]
  3. To bring out, utter (thoughts, information).[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e 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. ^ 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. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
  8. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de