abigo Latin · revision 32034

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂eǵ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''abigō''' (present infinitive abigere, perfect active abēgī, supine abāctum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Glossaries also have ''abagō''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ab-|agō|t2=to drive]], with the vowel weakened in the compound.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The verb [[m|la|agō]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*ag-e/o-|t=to do, act]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂eǵ-e/o-|t=to drive, lead]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|ἄγω|tr=ágō|t=to drive, lead]] and [[sa|अजति|tr=ájati|t=drives]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first examples are in Plautus, as “I will drive him away from the house as soon as he comes”, and in Ennius' “drive away the plague from me”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is first to drive away cattle, as Varro's flocks of sheep driven from Apulia to Samnium for the summer, and to drive off or steal them, as in Cicero's charge that Verres had a man's herds of mares carried off.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also to drive or frighten away, as in Cicero's “put a stick beside me to drive off the beasts”, to reject a friend, and to ward off dangers.^(OLD 2012) Of conditions it is to dispel, as in Plautus' “drive away your weariness”, and ''abigere partum'' is to cause an abortion, in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it of a magnet that repels iron, and Paulus' abridgement of Festus says magistrates who were forced to lay down office were called ''abacti''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “banish, drive away”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of driving someone away.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of warding off a plague.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of driving flocks.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of stealing cattle and of abortion.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of a magnet repelling iron.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To drive away cattle; to drive off, [[m|en|steal]] them.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To drive away, frighten off, [[m|en|banish]]; to reject; to ward off.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|repel]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To deter; to remove from office.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To dispel, relieve;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''abigere partum'', to cause an [[m|en|abortion]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[abāctiō]]

+ * [[abāctor]]

+ * [[abāctus]]

+ * [[abiga]]

+ * [[abāctius]]

+ * [[abagmentum]]

+ * [[abigeus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[abigeātor]]

+ * [[abigeātus]]

+ * [[ago|alt=agō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}