comedo Latin · revision 32489

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁ed-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkɔ.mɛ.doː]^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''comedō''' (present infinitive comedere or comēsse, perfect active comēdī, supine comēsum or comēssum or comēstum); third conjugation, irregular alternative forms^(Wiktionary)

+ The participle is usually ''comēsus'', also ''comēssus'' and ''comēstus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus has the old subjunctive ''comedim''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|edō|t2=to eat]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|edō]] to [[itc-pro|*ed-|t=to eat]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁ed-|t=to eat]], comparing [[osc|edum|t=to eat]], [[grc|ἔδω|tr=édō|t=to eat, devour]], [[hit|ed-|t=to eat]] and [[lt|ė́sti|t=to feed]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first: in the ''Casina'' some people could eat up a whole cargo boat of food.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to eat up or consume food, and Catullus has teeth that could chew up flint.^(OLD 2012) Plautus also uses it reflexively of a man who frets and eats himself up.^(OLD 2012) Very often it is to squander money or property on feasting and pleasure: in the ''Bacchides'' gold is wanted “to give to whores and to eat up in brothels”, and in the ''Mostellaria'' someone eats up a man's property in his absence.^(OLD 2012) From there it came to mean to eat away or destroy, as in Juvenal's informer who will snatch what is left of a devoured nobility, and Martial has someone devouring boys with his eyes.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it to eat, devour, consume entirely.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of eating, fretting and squandering.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of teeth that could chew flint.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal of a nobility eaten away.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To eat up, [[m|en|consume]]; of teeth, to chew up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Reflexively, to fret, [[m|en|chafe]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|squander]] money or property on feasting and riotous living; to eat up someone's property.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To eat away, destroy.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To devour with the eyes.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[comedus]]

+ * [[comēsor]]

+ * [[comēstibilis]]

+ * [[comestiō]]

+ * [[comēstūra]]

+ * [[comesus]]

+ * [[excomedo]]

+ * [[comēstor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[edo|alt=edō]]

+ * [[edax|alt=edāx]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A separate noun comedō, genitive comedōnis, “a glutton, a spendthrift”, was formed from the verb and is found in Lucilius and Varro;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) in New Latin it is also a blackhead in the skin.^(Wiktionary) Festus gives a by-form comedus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}