propinquo Latin · revision 31873

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *própro}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [prɔˈpɪŋ.kʷoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [proˈpiŋ.kʷo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''propinquō''' (present infinitive propinquāre, perfect active propinquāvī, supine propinquātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|propinquus|-ō|t1=near]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The adjective [[m|la|propinquus]] is made from [[m|la|prope|t=near]],^(de Vaan 2008) which de Vaan, after Dunkel, traces to [[ine-pro|*própro|t=on and on, ever further]], with loss of the second ⟨r⟩.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|πρόπρο|tr=própro|t=on and on]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Lucretius;^(de Vaan 2008) the OLD's first example is Caesar's ships that had come near.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to draw near or approach, also to be near, as in Tacitus' places nearest to the sky.^(OLD 2012) Virgil uses it of time, as the day of the Fates draws near, and transitively, “bring near” the augury.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that the transitive use is poetic, as in Silius' bringing on death, and that the intransitive is mostly poetic too.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it “approach, attain”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the approaching day of fate and of bringing near an omen.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of places near the sky.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To draw near, [[m|en|approach]]; to be near.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To approach in time.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To bring near, [[m|en|hasten]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[appropinquō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[propinquus]]

+ * [[prope]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}