contego Latin · revision 31726

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=ine-pro *(s)teg-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkɔn.tɛ.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''contegō''' (present infinitive contegere, perfect active contēxī, supine contēctum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|tegō|t2=to cover]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The verb [[m|la|tegō]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*tegō]] and [[ine-pro|*(s)teg-|t=to cover]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|στέγω|tr=stégō|t=to keep off, keep in]], [[lt|stógas|t=roof]] and [[sga|teg|t=house]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The Thesaurus finds it from Terence and Accius on;^(TLL) Terence's ''Hecyra'' has “you will have covered up the wrong unjustly done to her”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to cover over, usually to hide or protect, as Cicero's parts of the body that nature has covered and hidden, and to put a roof over, as Caesar's shelter covered with bricks and mud.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is used of burial, of strewing thickly, as Accius' fields covered with death, and of hiding a person or a fact, as Cicero's man who hid himself in a reaping basket.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “cover, envelop”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of covering up a wrong.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of fields covered with death.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of covering, burying and hiding.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of roofing over.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|cover]] over; to protect, clothe; to roof over.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|bury]], entomb.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|conceal]], hide.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tego|alt=tegō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}