dedo Latin · revision 18033

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=la dō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēdō''' (present infinitive dēdere, perfect active dēdidī, supine dēditum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Livy's formula has the old passive infinitive ''dēdier''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|dē-|dō|t1=away|t2=to give]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The TLL compares [[osc|dadid|t=would have handed over]].^(TLL) De Vaan lists it under [[m|la|dō]], from [[ine-pro|*deh₃-|t=to give]], noting that in compounds that verb merged with an old ⟨*-dō⟩ “to put”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Naevius.^(de Vaan 2008) Plautus has ''cūr tū … mē mortī dēdere optās?'', “why do you want to give me up to death?”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Dēdere'' is “to give up, surrender, hand over” (Terence: ''ancillās dēdō'', “I hand over the maids”), and above all of a people or army, ''sē dēdere'', “to surrender” (Caesar).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''Dēdere noxae'' was to hand over a slave or animal in compensation for damage it had done.^(OLD 2012) It is “to consign, abandon” to death or a condition, and reflexively “to devote oneself” to a pursuit or a person (Cicero: Cato, to whom I gave myself wholly from youth), and to devote one's ears or attention.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) It is also “to assign, put at someone's disposal” (Plautus: ''hunc tibi dēdō diem'').^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “to give up, yield, surrender, consign, devote, dedicate”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''mē mortī dēdere''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence: ''ancillās dēdō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of a surrender.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To give up, hand over, [[m|en|surrender]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(sē dēdere)'' To surrender, give in.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To consign, [[m|en|abandon]] (to death or a condition).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(reflexive)'' To [[m|en|devote]] oneself (to).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To assign, put at someone's disposal.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[deditim]]

+ * [[dēditiō]]

+ * [[dēditīcius]]

+ * [[dēditus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dō]]

+ * [[prōdō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}