como Latin · revision 32286

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *h₁em-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōmō''' (present infinitive cōmere, perfect active cōmpsī, supine cōmptum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Lewis & Short give the perfect also as ''cōmsī'' and the supine as ''cōmtum''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|emō|t1=together|t2=to take]], “to take together”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The TLL compares [[m|la|dēmō]] and [[m|la|dirimō]], and the grammarian Eutyches explained it from [[m|la|cōnsūmō]] and [[m|la|coemō]].^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|emō]] to [[itc-pro|*eme/o-|t=to take]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁em-e/o-|t=to take]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is Lucretius, who uses it of things united or combined.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From uniting it came to mean to make beautiful, dress or adorn, as Statius' neck and cheeks adorned, and in speech or writing to embellish, as Cicero says Lucilius adorned a passage with much charm.^(OLD 2012) Its commonest sense is to dress or arrange hair: a poem in the Tibullan collection says that whether she lets her hair down or arranges it, she is to be revered.^(OLD 2012) Fronto uses it of trimming bushes, and Statius of setting out arms in order.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein notes that it denotes ornament as something small and effeminate, often with blame, unlike [[orno|alt=ōrnō]].^(Döderlein 1874) Church Latin glosses it to comb, adorn the hair.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of combining things.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of embellishing a passage.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius of adorning neck and cheeks.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 100–170 AD – Fronto of trimming bushes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To unite, combine; to frame, construct.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To make beautiful, dress, [[m|en|adorn]]; to embellish in speech or writing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To dress, arrange or [[m|en|comb]] the hair; to trim bushes.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To arrange in order, set out.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[comptor]]

+ * [[comptulus]]

+ * [[cōmptus]]

+ * [[incōmptus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[emo|alt=emō]]

+ * [[demo|alt=dēmō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A separate verb ''comō'', ''-āre'', “to have hair”, from [[coma]], is found as a finite verb only in late writers such as Paulinus of Nola, though its participle [[comans|alt=comāns]], hairy, is common in poetry.^(Lewis & Short 1879) A non-literary adverb ''cōmō'', a form of [[quomodo|alt=quōmodo]] “how”, is securely attested from the mid-1st century AD.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}