adorno Latin · revision 31994

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la ōrdō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [aˈdoːr.noː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [aˈdɔr.no]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''adōrnō''' (present infinitive adōrnāre, perfect active adōrnāvī, supine adōrnātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|ōrnō|t2=to equip, adorn]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan takes [[m|la|ōrnō]] as the original denominative verb of [[m|la|ōrdō|t=row, order]], with a specialised sense, from [[itc-pro|*ord-n-|t=row, order]]; he finds a link with the root of [[m|la|artus|t=joint, limb]] attractive, which would give [[ine-pro|*h₂or-d-]], though such an extension of the root is not otherwise attested.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who has “have clean vessels made ready for me”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is to get ready or prepare, and to make arrangements, as Plautus' “prepare the wedding”.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is frequent in Plautus and Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is used of equipping ships in Caesar and of furnishing seas with fleets and garrisons in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder has women adorning themselves, and it means to decorate places and things, to honour someone with gifts or distinctions, as Livy's Numa giving a priest a robe and a curule chair, and to endow with talents, as in Velleius.^(OLD 2012) Quintilian uses it of embellishing a speech.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it “provide, furnish, prepare, adorn”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|adorn]] comes from it through Old French, recorded from the late 14th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of preparing vessels and a wedding.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of seas furnished with fleets.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of honouring with a robe and chair.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English [[m|en|adorn]], through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To get ready, [[m|en|prepare]]; to make arrangements for.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|equip]] ships; to furnish with military forces.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To array or attire oneself; to beautify.^(OLD 2012)

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

+ # To honour with gifts or distinctions; to endow with talents.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|embellish]] with words.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[superadornō]]

+ * [[adōrnātē]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[orno|alt=ōrnō]]

+ * [[ordo|alt=ōrdō]]

+ * [[exorno|alt=exōrnō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}