enumero Latin · revision 31874

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [eːˈnʊ.mɛ.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eˈnuː.me.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēnumerō''' (present infinitive ēnumerāre, perfect active ēnumerāvī, supine ēnumerātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|numerō|t2=to count]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The verb [[m|la|numerō]] is made from [[m|la|numerus|t=number]],^(de Vaan 2008) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*nomeso-]] and [[ine-pro|*nem-e/os-|t=apportioning]], probably a thematised form of the neuter noun seen in [[m|la|nemus|t=grove]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|νέμω|tr=némō|t=to dispense, distribute]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) where a slave says he is honest and his savings cannot be counted up.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to count or reckon up, as in Terence and Caesar, and to count out or pay money, as in Plautus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it of listing things one by one, as all of Verres' deeds, and in rhetoric of summing up or recapitulating.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it “count, number, enumerate”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|enumerate]] is from the 1640s, from or modelled on its past participle.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of counting up savings and paying out money.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of reckoning up what one expects back.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of listing deeds and of recapitulation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1640s – English [[m|en|enumerate]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To count up, [[m|en|reckon]] up; to count out, pay out money.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To list one by one, [[m|en|enumerate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' To sum up, [[m|en|recapitulate]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ēnumerātiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[numero|alt=numerō]]

+ * [[numerus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}