commeo Latin · revision 32480

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la meō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkɔm.me.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkɔm.me.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''commeō''' (present infinitive commeāre, perfect active commeāvī, supine commeātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''conmeō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|meō|t2=to go, pass]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|meō]] to [[itc-pro|*mejo-]] and, through a shift from “change” to “change places” and “go past”, to [[ine-pro|*h₂mei-o-|t=to exchange]], comparing [[grc|ἀμείβω|tr=ameíbō|t=to exchange, change]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first: in the ''Rudens'' it would be fitter for a man to go to the hangman than to Venus, and in the ''Curculio'' missiles fly thick at someone.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to come and go regularly, to travel or pass to and fro: Caesar wants a route on which even single men could pass safely, and Tacitus has soldiers travelling from the East on leave.^(OLD 2012) Festus explains it as going back and forth, whence [[commeatus|alt=commeātus]], leave of absence.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Things travel too: letters and goods, the blood in the veins in the ''Aetna'', and the stars that move from rising to setting in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder says that some trees will not travel to foreign lands, and Seneca uses it of passages that communicate with each other.^(OLD 2012) Cicero also has elements passing from one state into another.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of going somewhere and of missiles coming thick.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the motion of the stars.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of travelling safely.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of soldiers travelling on leave.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To come and go, go regularly, [[m|en|travel]]; to visit, [[m|en|frequent]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of goods, letters or natural things, to travel, be conveyed; to pass, flow.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of plants, to bear being moved to another place.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To communicate, be connected.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To pass from one state to another.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[commeabilis]]

+ * [[commeātor]]

+ * [[commeātus]]

+ * [[commētō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[meo|alt=meō]]

+ * [[remeo|alt=remeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}