recondo Latin · revision 31583

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈkɔn.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈkɔn.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''recondō''' (present infinitive recondere, perfect active recondidī, supine reconditum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Festus records a form ''reconduit'', glossed as “re-established”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|condō|t2=to put together, store, hide]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) Quintilian already discussed its two prefixes.^(TLL) ⟨condō⟩ is from [[m|la|con-]] and the root [[ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-|t=to put]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it in the sense “to store away”: a parasite calls himself an empty vessel to store leftovers in.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to put away or store, and to put something back in its place, as a sword returned to its sheath: Cicero speaks of a decree of the senate shut away in the records “like a sword in its scabbard”.^(OLD 2012) Ovid and Seneca use it of putting things back in place, and Celsus of setting a dislocated limb.^(OLD 2012) Often it is to hide away: Cicero tells how account books were removed and hidden more carefully.^(OLD 2012) Seneca says he shut himself away in retirement in order to be of use to more people, and Virgil uses it of burying a sword in a lung.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin has it for hide, lay aside, lay up, conceal.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|recondite]] (1640s) comes from its participle ''reconditus'', “hidden”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of storing leftovers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of hiding documents and sheathing a sword.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of burying a sword in the body.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of withdrawing into retirement.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1640s – English [[m|en|recondite]], from the participle.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To put away, store, [[m|en|hoard]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To put back in place; to sheathe a sword; to close the eyes again; to set a dislocated limb.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To hide away, [[m|en|conceal]]; to shut oneself away; to bury a weapon in the body.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[perreconditus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[condō]]

+ * [[abscondō]]

+ * [[en|recondite]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}