accommodo Latin · revision 32112

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [akˈkɔm.mɔ.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [akˈkɔm.mo.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''accommodō''' (present infinitive accommodāre, perfect active accommodāvī, supine accommodātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''adcommodō'', which Lewis & Short prefer.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|commodō|t2=to make fit; to lend]], as the TLL and the OLD explain it;^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Festus already connected it with [[m|la|modus|t=measure]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) The verb [[m|la|commodō]] is from [[m|la|commodus|t=fit, convenient]], [[m|la|com-]] with [[m|la|modus]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*medo-|t=measure]] and [[ine-pro|*med-o-|t=measure]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Etymonline) Cognate with [[xum|mers|t=law]] and [[osc|meddíss|t=magistrate]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who in the ''Trinummus'' speaks of fitting a shield to one's back.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to fit or fasten on, attach or apply, as Caesar's soldiers who had no time to fit on their insignia, and to fit together, as Cato's olive mill.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means to make to agree in time or amount, to make words agree in form, as Varro has it, and to link one thing with another.^(OLD 2012) More generally it is to make suitable, fit or adapt, and with a reflexive pronoun to adapt oneself, as Cicero's speakers who wholly shape and adapt themselves to the wishes of their hearers.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that it is very frequent in good prose, especially in Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means to provide or lend, and reflexively to devote oneself, as Cicero's men who have devoted themselves to the state and great affairs.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it to adjust, incline, accommodate, put on, fit.^(Stelten 1995) English formed ''accommodate'' from its participle in the 1530s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of fitting a shield to the back.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of assembling an olive mill.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of fitting on insignia.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of adapting oneself and devoting oneself to the state.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – English forms [[m|en|accommodate]] from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To fit or fasten on, [[m|en|attach]], apply; to fit together, assemble.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To make agree in time, amount or form; to link with.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To make suitable, [[m|en|adapt]], [[m|en|adjust]]; reflexively, to adapt oneself, comply.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To make available, provide, lend; reflexively, to devote oneself, lend one's support.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[accommodātiō]]

+ * [[peraccommodātus]]

+ * [[superaccommodo]]

+ * [[accommodātē]]

+ * [[accommodātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[accommodus]]

+ * [[commodo|alt=commodō]]

+ * [[commodus]]

+ * [[modus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}