infigo Latin · revision 32012

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 180–102 BC, Lucilius|origins=la fīgō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ĩːˈfiː.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iɱˈfiː.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnfīgō''' (present infinitive īnfīgere, perfect active īnfīxī, supine īnfīxum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|fīgō|t2=to fix, fasten]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs [[m|la|fīgō]] as [[ine-pro|*dʰeygʷ-e/o-]] or ⟨*dʰiHgʷ-e/o-⟩; the old form ⟨fīvere⟩ preserved by Paulus' abridgement of Festus keeps the regular outcome of ⟨*gʷ⟩ between vowels.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[lt|díegti|t=to plant, sting]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Lucilius,^(de Vaan 2008) who has a man drive a little wooden shield into another's brain.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to drive in a weapon or sharp object, as in Cicero's “to drive a sword into an enemy's breast”, and to impale, as Virgil's Ajax whom Pallas fixed on a sharp rock.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also to fasten on, as Caesar's stakes fitted with iron hooks, to plant firmly, as in Cicero's question how a god could be fixed in the world, and in Seneca's Medea to press kisses on her children.^(OLD 2012) Above all in Cicero it is to fix in the mind or memory, and the participle is used of deeply rooted feelings and ideas; it is also to fix the mind or gaze on something.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “fasten in, thrust in, stick fast, infix”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius of driving a weapon into the brain.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a sword in the breast and of thoughts fixed in the mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of Ajax impaled on a rock.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To drive in, thrust in; to [[m|en|impale]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|fasten]] on, attach; to fix firmly, plant; to press kisses.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To fix in the mind, [[m|en|implant]], impress; the participle, deeply rooted.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To fix the mind or gaze on.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[figo|alt=fīgō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}