commemoro Latin · revision 18016

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔmˈmɛ.mɔ.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [komˈmɛː.mo.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''commemorō''' (present infinitive commemorāre, perfect active commemorāvī, supine commemorātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''conmemorō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|con-|memorō|t2=to mention, tell]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) [[m|la|memorō]] is from [[m|la|memor|t=mindful]], which recent scholars, de Vaan among them, derive from ⟨*me-mn-os-⟩, from the perfect stem of [[m|la|meminī|t=to remember]], Walde and Ernout–Meillet took it from [[ine-pro|*(s)mer-|t=to remember]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who has ''nec potis quicquam commemorārier quod plūs salis … habeat'', “nothing can be named that has more charm”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Commemorāre'' is “to recall”, usually to someone else, sometimes to oneself (Cicero: ''ō commemorānda iūdicia!'', “judgments worth recalling!”).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Its common sense is “to mention, relate, recount” in speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) In inscriptions it is “to place on record” (a wife who came from Gaul to record her husband's memory).^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “to commemorate, remember”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|commemorate]] comes from its past participle in the 1590s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''nec potis quicquam commemorārier''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''ō commemorānda iūdicia!''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1590s – English [[m|en|commemorate]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|recall]], remind (someone) of; to remember.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|mention]], relate, recount.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To place on record.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[commemorābilis]]

+ * [[commemorāmentum]]

+ * [[commemorātiō]]

+ * [[commemorator]]

+ * [[commemorātōrium]]

+ * [[commemorātorius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[memorō]]

+ * [[memor]]

+ * [[meminī]]

+ * [[en|commemorate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}