subvenio Latin · revision 30960

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *gʷem-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sʊbˈwɛ.ni.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [subˈvɛː.ni.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''subveniō''' (present infinitive subvenīre, perfect active subvēnī, supine subventum); fourth conjugation, impersonal in the passive^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus has the old future ''subvenībō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|sub-|veniō|t2=to come]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis and Short take the image from a military reserve coming up in support.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces ⟨veniō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*gʷn-je/o-|t=to come]] and [[ine-pro|*gʷem-|t=to come]], cognate with [[sa|गच्छति|tr=gácchati|t=goes, comes]], [[grc|βαίνω|tr=baínō|t=to go]] and [[osc|kúmbened|t=has come together]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Casina'': ''quis mihi subveniet tergō … aut crūribus?'', “who will come to the help of my back or my legs?”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to come to the help of someone in danger or difficulty, usually with the dative, and also without any sense of motion, as Plautus' father helping a son in love; things can come to the rescue too, as Valerius' eloquence in Valerius Maximus.^(OLD 2012) It is to bring relief against an ill: Cicero speaks of the goddesses whose help relieves other fires, and of Marius' courage relieving the people's mourning, and remedies relieve illness.^(OLD 2012) In Statius a thought comes to mind.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “come up to, relieve, assist, come to the aid of”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of coming to help.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of bringing relief.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius of a thought occurring.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To come to the help of, [[m|en|assist]], [[m|en|rescue]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To bring relief (against), [[m|en|relieve]], remedy.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To occur (to the mind).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[subventiō]]

+ * [[subventō]]

+ * [[subuentor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[adveniō]]

+ * [[antēveniō]]

+ * [[circumveniō]]

+ * [[contrāveniō]]

+ * [[conveniō]]

+ * [[dēveniō]]

+ * [[ēveniō]]

+ * [[intervenio]]

+ * [[inveniō]]

+ * [[obveniō]]

+ * [[veniō]]

+ * [[subsidium]]

+ * [[succurrō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}