obmoveo

Forms

obmoveō (present infinitive obmovēre, perfect active obmōvī); second conjugation^[1][2] It is also spelled ⟨ommoveō⟩,^[1][3] the spelling the grammarian Marius Victorinus requires.^[4]

Etymology

It is from Latin ob- (“towards, before”) + moveō (“to move”).^[1][4] De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of moveō,^[5] which goes back to Proto-Italic *mow(a)- and Proto-Indo-European *m(i̯)euh₁- (“to move”).^[5] He compares Lithuanian máudyti (“to bathe”).^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

De Vaan dates it from Cato,^[5] whose farm manual has a prayer to Jupiter made while offering him a sacrificial cake.^[2][3]

Semantic evolution

It is a religious word for offering something up, known from the prayers in Cato's farm manual.^[1][2] Lewis and Short call it pre-classical.^[2] Paulus' epitome of Festus says the ancients used ⟨obmoveto⟩ for admoveto, and glossaries took this over.^[2][4]

Timeline

• 234–149 BC – Cato uses it in prayers for offering a sacrificial cake.^[2][6]

Meanings

Verb

1. (religion) To offer up, make an offering of.^[1][3]

Related words

• moveō
• admoveō

References

1. ^ a b c d e Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
2. ^ a b c d e f Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
3. ^ a b c Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
4. ^ a b c Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
5. ^ a b c d de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
6. ^ Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de