conquiro Latin · revision 31138

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|origins=itc-pro *kʷaise/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''conquīrō''' (present infinitive conquīrere, perfect active conquīsīvī, supine conquīsītum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Inscriptions have ''conquaeri'' and the perfect ''conquaeisivei''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|con-]] and [[m|la|quaerō|t=to seek]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨quaerō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*kʷaise/o-]] and perhaps [[ine-pro|*kʷeh₂-i-|t=to acquire]], following Nussbaum, though other analyses exist.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ One of its first examples in the OLD is a Republican inscription: “I searched out the runaway slaves of the Italians”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to search out and collect, as money gathered from every side in Cicero's letters, and to rake up material in speech or writing, as Cicero's ''Brutus''.^(OLD 2012) It is to go out of one's way to look for something, as Varro's people seeking new shapes of furniture, and to search out facts or ideas.^(OLD 2012) Varro explains [[quaestor]] as one who “investigates” public money and crimes.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “seek carefully”.^(Stelten 1995) The Vulgar Latin form ⟨*conquaerō⟩, the source of Old French ''conquerre'', gave English [[m|en|conquer]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of raking up material.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of investigating.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1200 – English [[m|en|conquer]], from Old French ''conquerre'', from the Vulgar Latin form of the verb.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To search out and collect; to collect (money); to rake up.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To seek out, hunt down; to search out (facts, ideas).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|investigate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[conquīsītiō]]

+ * [[conquīsītor]]

+ * [[conquaestus]]

+ * [[conquīsītus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quaerō]]

+ * [[requīrō]]

+ * [[en|conquer]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}