congero Latin · revision 31088

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''congerō''' (present infinitive congerere, perfect active congessī, supine congestum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|con-|gerō|t2=to carry]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) 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==

+ The TLL finds it from Plautus on.^(TLL) In the ''Curculio'' wax is ''apicularum operā congestum'', “gathered by the work of the little bees”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to bring together or collect, and to make by collecting, as Cicero's travel money raised by friends.^(OLD 2012) Plautus has it of stuffing herbs into the belly.^(OLD 2012) It is to heap up, as a feast piled up by clients, to build by heaping, to merge into one (Seneca), and to crowd people together, as two legions packed into a corner.^(OLD 2012) Of words it is to gather arguments or names (Cicero: you have brought together all the workmen), and of other things to heap them up: Martial's woman piles up Greek endearments, and Cicero complains of charges heaped on him.^(OLD 2012) It is also to shower kisses (Ovid) and to rain missiles (Tacitus).^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short call it classical and frequent.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “heap up, collect, construct”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of wax gathered by bees.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of collecting money and heaping charges.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of raining missiles.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To bring together, [[m|en|collect]], amass.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To heap up, pile up; to build (by heaping).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To crowd together.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To compile; to gather (arguments).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To heap (honours, charges) on; to shower (kisses, missiles).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[congeriēs]]

+ * [[congestīcius]]

+ * [[congestim]]

+ * [[congestiō]]

+ * [[congestus]]

+ * [[accongerō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[gerō]]

+ * [[ingerō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A separate noun ''congerō'', ''congerōnis'', “thief”, occurs in Plautus;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Fulgentius explains it as those who gather others' goods to themselves.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}