renovo Latin · revision 30955

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *néwos}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈrɛ.nɔ.woː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈrɛː.no.vo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''renovō''' (present infinitive renovāre, perfect active renovāvī, supine renovātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|re-|novō|t2=to make new]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The verb comes from [[m|la|novus|t=new]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*nowo-]] and [[ine-pro|*néwos|t=new]], cognate with [[sa|नव|tr=náva|t=new]], [[grc|νέος|tr=néos|t=new, young]] and [[cu|новъ|tr=novŭ|t=new]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lucretius says the sea's springs constantly replenish it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero speaks of restoring a fading picture with its original colours.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to restore something to its first condition, as Cicero's faded painting, to replenish (stars fed by vapours), to renew plants (Columella), to recondition land (Ovid), to reopen a wound (Celsus) and to relight a torch (Statius).^(OLD 2012) It is to refresh a person or the spirits, and to revive things, as new colonies founded and old ones renewed.^(OLD 2012) It is to renew a treaty or law, and ''faenus renovāre'' is to add interest to the principal.^(OLD 2012) It is also to resume an activity (Cicero took up philosophy again) or a ceremony, and to bring back a time.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “renew, build anew, restore”.^(Stelten 1995) English ''renovate'' (1520s) comes from its past participle.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of springs renewing the sea.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a painting, a treaty and compound interest.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of renewed land.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of a reopened wound.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1520s – English [[m|en|renovate]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|restore]], renew; to replenish; to reopen (a wound).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To refresh, revive.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To renew (a treaty, law); ''faenus renovāre'', to compound interest.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To resume, take up again; to repeat.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[novus]]

+ * [[novō]]

+ * [[en|renovate]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Lewis and Short give [[īnstaurō]] and [[redintegrō]] as synonyms.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}