ingemo Latin · revision 32196

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *Gen(H)-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɪŋ.ɡɛ.moː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈin̠ʲ.d͡ʒe.mo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ingemō''' (present infinitive ingemere, perfect active ingemuī, supine ingemitum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|gemō|t1=at, over|t2=to groan]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The origin of [[m|la|gemō]] is disputed: most scholars connect it with [[grc|γέμω|tr=gémō|t=to be full]], but de Vaan finds that semantically hard and follows Vine's link with [[grc|γέγωνα|tr=gégōna|t=to shout]], from a root [[ine-pro|*Gen(H)-|t=to call]], with /m/ for /n/ after semantically related words.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL dates it from Lucretius, Virgil, Horace and Ovid, and in prose later.^(TLL) Virgil's fifth ''Eclogue'' uses it of lamenting a death.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to utter a cry of pain or anguish, to groan or moan, and of things to creak, as Valerius Flaccus' whole forest groaning under the north wind's wings.^(OLD 2012) Transitively it is to groan over or lament, as Statius' man lamenting his young wife's years.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The OLD assigns all perfect forms to [[ingemisco|alt=ingemīscō]].^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it is glossed repent.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of lamenting a death.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius of lamenting a wife's years.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|groan]], [[m|en|moan]]; of things, to creak.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Transitively, to groan over, [[m|en|lament]], bewail.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To repent.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ingemēscō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[gemo|alt=gemō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}