accio Latin · revision 31377

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *(ḱ)ei(h₂)-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈak.ki.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈat.t͡ʃi.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''acciō''' (present infinitive accīre, perfect active accīvī or acciī, supine accītum); fourth conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus has a future ''acciēbō'' and Lucretius an imperfect ''accībant''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|ad-|t=to]] and [[m|la|cieō|t=to set in motion, summon]].^(OLD 2012) De Vaan reconstructs for ⟨cieō⟩ an aorist [[ine-pro|*(ḱ)ei(h₂)-|t=to start to move]], cognate with [[grc|ἔκιε|tr=ékie|t=started to move]], and notes that the long ⟨ī⟩ of ⟨accīre⟩ appears in its perfect.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has the future ''acciēbō'' in the ''Miles gloriosus'';^(OLD 2012) Accius has “for which uproar I have called you here”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to summon, send for or invite, as in Accius and Lucretius' men calling on Orcus with dreadful cries, and to have a thing fetched, as Tacitus' king who sent his most trusted friends to Pontus to fetch the god's statue.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) It is used with the purpose of the summons, as in Varro.^(OLD 2012) ''Mortem accīre'', “to summon death”, is to kill oneself, as Velleius' king who brought on his own death.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Lewis and Short call it rare but classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it “summon, call to, procure, take”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus has ''acciēbō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of summoning to an uproar.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of calling on Orcus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of fetching a statue.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|summon|alt=summon]], send for, invite; to have (a thing) fetched.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To summon (for a purpose).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''mortem accīre'', to commit [[m|en|suicide]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[accitio]]

+ * [[accītus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cieō]]

+ * [[concieō]]

+ * [[conciō]]

+ * [[excieō]]

+ * [[exciō]]

+ * [[percieō]]

+ * [[perciō]]

+ * [[ciō]]

+ * [[citō]]

+ * [[arcessō]]

+ * [[ēvocō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein gives ''arcessere'' and ''accersere'' as the general words for sending for someone;^(Döderlein 1874) ''accīre'' implies that those sent for are equals, as in an invitation, and ''ēvocāre'' that they are subordinates, as in a summons.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}