ingero Latin · revision 30971

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɪŋ.ɡɛ.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈin̠ʲ.d͡ʒe.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ingerō''' (present infinitive ingerere, perfect active ingessī, supine ingestum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Catullus has the imperative ''inger'' for ''ingere''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|in-|gerō|t2=to carry]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Etymonline) De Vaan traces ⟨gerō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*ges-e/o-]] and a stem [[ine-pro|*h₂ǵ-es-|t=to carry]], built on the root of [[m|la|agō|t=to drive]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In Plautus' ''Pseudolus'' a slave with an urn is told ''aquam ingere'', “pour in water”;^(OLD 2012) Cato bids the farmer heap on as much sheep's dung as he can.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to heap or pile on and to pour in, and of food and drink to take in large amounts, as Celsus' doctor who poured more cold water into a fever patient.^(OLD 2012) It is to rain down missiles or blows (Terence: punches in the belly), to heap insults or punishments on someone, and to fling oneself.^(OLD 2012) It is to thrust unwelcome things on a person, as Seneca the Elder's explanations, and to obtrude a fact (Cicero: I keep bringing up the past), and in Propertius to din something into someone's ears.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “infuse, pour into, execute”.^(Stelten 1995) English ''ingest'' (1610s) comes from its past participle ''ingestus''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of pouring in water.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of heaping on dung.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of raining blows.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of making a patient drink.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1610s – English [[m|en|ingest]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To heap on, pile up; to [[m|en|pour]] in.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To take in (food or drink).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To rain down (missiles, blows); to heap (insults, punishments) on.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To force on (a person); to [[m|en|obtrude]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To say repeatedly, din into someone's ears.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adingero]]

+ * [[ingestiō]]

+ * [[ingestus]]

+ * [[superingerō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[gerō]]

+ * [[congerō]]

+ * [[en|ingest]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}