pondo Latin · revision 10011

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Twelve Tables|origins=ine-pro *(s)pend-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pondō''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is an ablative of ⟨*pondus, -ī⟩, an ⟨o⟩-stem beside [[pondus]] “weight”, from [[pendō]] “to weigh”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Gaffiot 2016) De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic ⟨*pondo-⟩ “weight” beside ⟨*pend-e/o-⟩ “to hang, weigh”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's earliest source is the Twelve Tables.^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates the Twelve Tables c. 450 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant in weight, by weight, as in Plautus' ''nēque piscium ūllam unciam pondō'' “not an ounce in weight of fish” and Livy's ''corōnam auream lībram pondō'' “a golden crown a pound in weight”; since it so often stood with ''lībra'', it came to mean a pound by itself, as an indeclinable noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 450 BC – The Twelve Tables use it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of a golden crown.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # In [[m|en|weight]], by weight.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(indeclinable noun)'' A [[m|en|pound]].^(TLL)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dupondius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pondus]]

+ * [[pendō]]

+ * [[lībra]]

+ * [[en|pound]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}