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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la queror}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [ˈkɔŋ.kʷɛ.rɔr]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkɔŋ.kʷe.ror]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''conqueror''' (present infinitive conquerī, perfect active conquestus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|con-|queror|t2=to complain]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The verb [[m|la|queror]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*kwes-e/o-]];^(de Vaan 2008) Walde–Hofmann, Pokorny and the LIV derive it from [[ine-pro|*kʷes-|t=to hiss]], through “to sigh”, which de Vaan calls possible but not compelling.^(de Vaan 2008) On that view it is cognate with [[sa|श्वसिति|tr=śvásiti|t=to hiss, snort]] and [[non|hvæsa|t=to hiss]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) whose miser in the ''Aulularia'' “wails and complains in grief” and says “I bewail my poverty”.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It means to utter a complaint or lament, and transitively to complain of or bewail something.^(OLD 2012) Cicero quotes a line of Pacuvius that it is fitting to complain of misfortune, but not to wail over it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that it is used in classical prose and poetry, of strong or prolonged lament.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ Church Latin glosses it “complain, bewail”.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of lament and of bewailing poverty.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius of complaining of misfortune.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To [[m|en|complain]], [[m|en|lament]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To complain of, [[m|en|bewail]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[conquestiō]]
+ * [[conquestus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[queror]]
+ * [[querela|alt=querēla]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}