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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [pɛr.noːˈteːs.koː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [per.noˈtɛs.ko][1]

Forms

pernōtēscō (present infinitive pernōtēscere, perfect active pernōtuī); third conjugation, no supine stem[1] It is found only in perfect forms.[2]

Etymology

It is from Latin per- (“thoroughly, completely”) + nōtēscō (“to become known”).[3][1][2][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is first found in Tacitus,[2][5] who says that everything soon became widely known: adeō cūncta mox pernōtuēre.[2][6]

Semantic evolution

It meant to become generally or thoroughly known, often with a sense of speed.[3][2] Lewis and Short call it post-Augustan.[7] Tacitus also uses it impersonally with an accusative and infinitive, pernōtuit, “it became known that…”, as when it became known that it was Caesar who was roaming about.[2][6] In the declamations ascribed to Quintilian a new fault becomes notorious, nova culpa pernōtuit.[2][5]

Timeline

  • 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it personally and impersonally.[2][8]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To become generally known, become notorious.[3][7][5]
  2. (impersonal, with accusative and infinitive) It became known (that).[2][7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  3. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  4. ^ Bianchi, Rossella; Lelli, Olga (2014), VOLI: Vocabolario di latino, Florence: Le Monnier
  5. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
  6. ^ a b Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
  7. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  8. ^ Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de