rigo Latin · revision 31689

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈrɪ.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈriː.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rigō''' (present infinitive rigāre, perfect active rigāvī, supine rigātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan notes that the compound [[irrigō|t=to irrigate]] is clearly older than ⟨rigō⟩, and reconstructs [[itc-pro|*rigā-|t=to lead toward]].^(de Vaan 2008) He considers the root of [[regō|t=to lead]], “to lead water onto the fields”, but prefers the root [[ine-pro|*Hreyǵ-|alt=*Hriǵ-|t=to stretch]] of [[rigeō|t=to be stiff]], which best explains the ⟨i⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) The OLD compares [[goh|regan|t=rain]] and English [[m|en|rain]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Lucretius,^(de Vaan 2008) who notes how far a small spring of water waters the meadows.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means “to water, irrigate” land and plants, and figuratively to nourish with a vital fluid, as Cicero's poem on the she-wolf feeding the sons of Mars with her udders.^(OLD 2012) More widely it is to wet or drench, as Pliny the Elder's broom soaked in seawater, and Lucretius uses it of bathing with light.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means to make a liquid flow, as Cicero's Aquarius pouring a dark stream.^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short call it mostly poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “water, wash, sprinkle, moisten, wet, irrigate”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of a spring watering meadows.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the she-wolf and of Aquarius.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of soaking broom.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To water, [[m|en|irrigate]]; to nourish.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To wet, [[m|en|drench]], moisten; to bathe.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To make a liquid flow.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[irrigō]]

+ * [[rigātiō]]

+ * [[rigatus]]

+ * [[riguus]]

+ * [[rigātor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[regō]]

+ * [[rigeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}