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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *weǵʰ-e/o-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [ˈdeː.we.(ɦ)oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈdɛː.ve.o]^(Wiktionary)
+
+ ==Forms==
+ '''dēvehō''' (present infinitive dēvehere, perfect active dēvē̆xī, supine dēvectum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ Manuscripts sometimes spell it ''divehō''.^(TLL)
+
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|dē-|vehō|t1=down, away|t2=to carry]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|vehō]] to [[itc-pro|*weχ-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*weǵʰ-e/o-|t=to carry]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's first example is the prologue of Plautus' ''Poenulus'': the man who stole the girls carried them off to Anactorium.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It means to carry, convey or transport to a destination, as Caesar has boats carried on wagons twenty-two miles from his camp, and is most frequent in the historians.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is used of transport by sea, as Livy's statues and paintings carried from Syracuse to Rome, and in the passive of sailing; of transport downstream, as Cicero's arms brought down the Tiber to a villa.^(OLD 2012) An old inscription allows the stakes of a temple to be carried away, and the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of a man sewn in a hide and carried down into a river.^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary adds to descend and to go away.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of girls carried off to a city.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' of a man thrown into a river.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of boats carried on wagons.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of works of art shipped from Syracuse to Rome.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To carry, [[m|en|convey]], [[m|en|transport]] to a destination.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To convey by sea or downstream; in the passive, to sail, travel downstream.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To carry away, remove.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # To carry down; in the passive, to descend.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[veho|alt=vehō]]
+
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}