remeo Latin · revision 31787

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂mey-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈrɛ.me.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈrɛː.me.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''remeō''' (present infinitive remeāre, perfect active remeāvī, supine remeātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|meō|t2=to go, pass]].^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan derives ⟨meō⟩ from [[itc-pro|*mejō|alt=*mejo-]], perhaps a verb formed on a noun [[ine-pro|*h₂mey-o-|alt=*h2mei-o-|t=change, movement]], with a shift of meaning from “change” to “change places” and “go on”; cognate with [[grc|ἀμείβω|tr=ameíbō|t=to exchange]] and [[cu|мѣна|tr=měna|t=exchange]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) whose ''Epidicus'' has “I'll go back inside so that the guests are looked after”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means “to go or come back, return”, to one's home or former place.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis and Short note that it is not frequent until after the Augustan period, occurs once in Cicero and never in Caesar.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero's one use is of air that would no longer return once moisture was used up;^(OLD 2012) Mela uses it of the winding paths of the labyrinth, and Horace of a lifetime coming round again.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “go or come back, return”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of going back inside.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of returning air.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a lifetime returning.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43/44 AD – Mela of the labyrinth's paths.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To go or come back, [[m|en|return]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of things, to move back; of water, to [[m|en|recede]]; of seasons, to come round again.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[remeābilis]]

+ * [[remeāculum]]

+ * [[remeatus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[meō]]

+ * [[commeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}