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innecto

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ɪnˈnɛk.toː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [inˈnɛk.to][1]

Forms

innectō (present infinitive innectere, perfect active innexuī, supine innexum); third conjugation[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin in- + nectō (“to tie, bind”).[2][3][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The OLD's first citations are from Virgil's Aeneid, where Allecto ties a branch of olive into white hair bound with a fillet.[2]

Semantic evolution

It means to fasten one thing to another, to tie on:[2][4] Virgil also has necks bound with gold, and Ovid temples wreathed with garlands.[4] Statius uses it of arms thrown round a neck, Celsus of an organ attached to the membranes, and Tacitus of a man connected to the house of Vespasian by marriage.[2] Livy has branches interlaced with one another.[2] With an ablative it means to bind up with something: Virgil has both men's hands bound with equal arms, and Ovid arms clasped round a neck.[2][4] Figuratively it is to weave or devise plots: Virgil has causās innecte morandī, "weave reasons for delay".[2] Prudentius has the old infinitive innectier.[4][3] Stelten glosses it "insert".[5]

Timeline

  • 70–19 BC – Virgil of tying, binding and contriving.[2][4]
  • 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of interlaced branches.[2]
  • 98–115 AD – Tacitus of a connection by marriage.[2]
  • 348/49–c. 413 AD – Prudentius has innectier.[4][3]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To tie on, fasten, bind (one thing to another); to throw (the arms) round.[2][4][1]
  2. To join together, interlace;[2][1] (passive) to be connected with.[2][1]
  3. To bind up, gird, wreathe with.[2][4]
  4. (figurative) To weave, devise; to entangle.[2][1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o 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 d e f g h Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  5. ^ Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson