recito Latin · revision 17976

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la cieō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈrɛ.kɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈrɛː.t͡ʃi.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''recitō''' (present infinitive recitāre, perfect active recitāvī, supine recitātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|re-|citō|t2=to set in motion, call out]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|citō]] is the frequentative of [[m|la|cieō|t=to set in motion]], which it replaced in classical Latin.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citation is Plautus: ''postquam recitāstī quod erat cērae crēditum'', “after you read out what had been entrusted to the wax tablet”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Recitāre'' is “to read out, recite aloud”, especially in public;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) L&S call it, in the best prose, the technical term for reading out a document, a deposition or a report in public proceedings (Cicero: ''alicuius testimōnium recitāre'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Sallust has a letter of Adherbal read out in the senate.^(OLD 2012) From Horace on it is “to recite” one's own literary works before an audience, as at the fashionable public readings.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary adds “to appoint, name in writing”.^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “recite”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|recite]] (early 15th century, first in legal use) comes from it, partly through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''postquam recitāstī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of reading out evidence.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of reciting poems.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|recite]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To read out, [[m|en|recite]] (a document, in public).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To recite (literary works) before an audience.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To appoint, name (in writing).^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[recitātiō]]

+ * [[recitātor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[citō]]

+ * [[cieō]]

+ * [[en|recite]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}