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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Twelve Tables|origins=ine-pro *deh₃-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈtraː.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈtraː.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trādō''' (present infinitive trādere, perfect active trādidī, supine trāditum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Also ''trānsdō'', in an inscription, Terence, Accius and often in Caesar, and the Twelve Tables have ''trānsque datō'' in tmesis.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a compound of [[trāns]] “across” and [[dō]] “to give”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨dō⟩ to [[ine-pro|*di-déh₃-|t=to give]], cognate with Umbrian ⟨dirsa⟩ “let him give”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are the Twelve Tables and Plautus, of handing over.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates the Twelve Tables c. 450 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to hand over, pass to another, as in Plautus and Cicero; to deliver into someone's keeping; to surrender to an enemy, as in Accius; to hand down, bequeath; to put a person at another's disposal, and to entrust a charge; to introduce a person, as in Cicero; to consign to a condition or process, as in Naevius and Accius; and to hand down information, relate, as in Plautus.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to betray, hand over, yield, hand down, relate, surrender.^(Stelten 1995) It survives as Italian ''tradire'' and French ''trahir'' “to betray”, and Romanian ''trăda''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 450 BC – The Twelve Tables use it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of handing over and of relating.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of delivering and introducing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To hand over, [[m|en|deliver]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|surrender]]; to [[m|en|betray]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To hand down, [[m|en|bequeath]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|entrust]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To introduce (a person).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To hand down (a story), relate.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[contrado]]

+ * [[retrādō]]

+ * [[trāditiō]]

+ * [[trāditor]]

+ * [[traditus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dō]]

+ * [[en|tradition]]

+ * [[en|traitor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}