imputo Latin · revision 31259

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=1st century BC, Publilius Syrus|origins=ine-pro *pHu-tó-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɪm.pʊ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈim.pu.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''imputō''' (present infinitive imputāre, perfect active imputāvī, supine imputātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''inputō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|in-|t=in, into]] and [[m|la|putō|t=to reckon]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains ⟨putō⟩ as a verb made from [[m|la|putus|t=pure, clean]], from [[itc-pro|*puto-|t=cut off, cleaned]] and [[ine-pro|*pHu-tó-]]: it first meant to prune a tree, then to ponder or reckon.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The ''Sententiae'' of Publilius Syrus have “lay to the credit of him through whom you are famous what you are”;^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Lewis and Short find it only from the Augustan period on.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In commerce it is to enter as a debt, charge to someone, and also to enter as a credit, as in the elder Seneca, and to reckon in a sum, as in Ulpian.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Figuratively it is to lay a fault to someone's charge, impute or ascribe, as Rutilius Lupus' unfair man who blames one person for what he forgives in all, and less often to lay something to someone's credit.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ It is also to make a favour a ground of obligation, to claim credit for it, as Phaedrus' “don't claim credit with me for an empty favour”.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it “reckon, account as a fault”.^(Stelten 1995) Through Old French and directly it gave English [[m|en|impute]] in the early 15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1st century BC – Publilius Syrus of crediting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century BC – Rutilius Lupus of imputing faults.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 15 BC–c. 50 AD – Phaedrus of claiming credit for a favour.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian of reckoning in a sum.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English ''impute''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To enter into the account, charge (as a debt); to credit; to reckon (in a sum).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|impute]], [[m|en|ascribe]] (a fault); to lay to someone's credit.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To claim credit for (a favour).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[imputātiō]]

+ * [[imputātor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[imputātīvus]]

+ * [[imputātus]]

+ * [[putō]]

+ * [[computō]]

+ * [[dēputō]]

+ * [[reputō]]

+ * [[en|impute]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}