excogito Latin · revision 31148

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=1st century BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=ine-pro *h₂eǵ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛkˈskoː.ɡɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ekˈskɔː.d͡ʒi.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''excōgitō''' (present infinitive excōgitāre, perfect active excōgitāvī, supine excōgitātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|ex-]] and [[m|la|cōgitō|t=to think]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) ⟨Cōgitō⟩ is in turn from [[m|la|co-]] and [[m|la|agitō|t=to drive, consider]], the frequentative of [[m|la|agō|t=to drive, do]],^(Wiktionary) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*age/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂eǵ-e/o-|t=to drive, lead]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in a fragment of an unidentified Roman comedy and in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to find out by thinking, to think out, contrive, devise or invent, in a good or a bad sense, often with the end in view (Pliny's casks “devised for wines”).^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero is very fond of it, as are Valerius Maximus and Pliny the Elder, while Sallust, Horace, Velleius, Columella and the dactylic poets avoid it.^(TLL) A late-antique list of Ciceronian synonyms groups it with ''mōlior'', ''māchinor'', ''comminīscor'', ''inveniō'' and ''reperiō''.^(TLL)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “devise, invent”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1st century BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''.^(TLL)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it often.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of devising casks for wine.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To think out, [[m|en|contrive]], [[m|en|devise]], [[m|en|invent]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[excōgitātiō]]

+ * [[excōgitātor]]

+ * [[inexcōgitātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cōgitō]]

+ * [[comminīscor]]

+ * [[inveniō]]

+ * [[māchinor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}