exorno Latin · revision 31554

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛkˈsoːr.noː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eɡˈzɔr.no]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exōrnō''' (present infinitive exōrnāre, perfect active exōrnāvī, supine exōrnātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|ōrnō|t2=to equip, adorn]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan lists it under [[ōrdō|t=row, order]]: ⟨ōrnō⟩ was its original verb, ⟨*ōrd-n-āre⟩, which kept the special sense “to adorn”; he finds a link of ⟨ōrdō⟩ with the root [[ine-pro|*h₂er-]] of [[artus|t=joint, limb]] attractive in meaning, though its ⟨d⟩-extension is not found elsewhere.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who has it of preparing a wedding and of a woman adorning herself: “I adorn myself for you, to please you”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to equip, furnish or prepare: in Plautus nothing gives more trouble than a ship and a woman once you start to fit them out;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short note this sense is rare and not in Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) It is also to adorn a person or a place, as when Cicero says someone adorned cities with the finest statues and monuments.^(OLD 2012) Transferred, it is to add distinction or honour: Pythagoras ennobled Magna Graecia with his teachings and arts, and Cicero speaks of himself as distinguished with command and the highest insignia.^(OLD 2012) In rhetoric it is to embellish a theme.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin has it for adorn, provide with.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of preparing a wedding and adorning oneself.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of adorning cities and of distinction.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial of things serving as equipment.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|equip]], prepare, furnish, provide.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|adorn]], decorate, beautify a person or place.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To add distinction to, ennoble; to honour.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' To [[m|en|embellish]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exōrnātiō]]

+ * [[exornātor]]

+ * [[exornātulus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ōrnō]]

+ * [[ōrdō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}