adaequo Latin · revision 32503

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la aequus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [aˈdae̯.kʷoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [aˈdɛː.kʷo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''adaequō''' (present infinitive adaequāre, perfect active adaequāvī, supine adaequātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|aequō|t2=to make equal, level]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|aequō]] comes from [[m|la|aequus|t=level, equal]], which de Vaan reconstructs as *aikwos but for which he finds no convincing etymology.^(de Vaan 2008) It survives in [[fro|aiwer]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The earliest examples in the OLD and TLL are from Cicero and Caesar: Cicero says that Pompey matched his fortune to his valour.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to make equal in height, to level with: Caesar has siege works raised to the height of a town's walls, and Livy has the Romans levelling every house to the ground, adaequāre solō.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Cicero uses it of making the memory of a name last as long as all posterity, and of a man placed on a level with someone's closest friends.^(OLD 2012) Intransitively it is to come up to the level of something, or to equal a speed or range: Caesar has heaps of weapons almost reaching the top of a wall, and Tacitus spears that carried further than arrows shot back could reach.^(OLD 2012) Of votes it means to be equally divided, as when Cicero reports that the knights' urn was evenly split.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) The Vulgate uses it of levelling a wall to the earth.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it equalize, make adequate, level with.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of matching fortune to valour.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of siege works level with the walls.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of levelling houses to the ground.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1610s – English [[m|en|adequate]] comes from its participle.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make [[m|en|equal]] or [[m|en|level]] with; adaequāre solō, to [[m|en|raze]] to the ground.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To put on an equal footing; to treat as equal; to compare.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To come up to the level of; to equal a speed, range or number.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of votes, to be equally divided; to be on a par.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To equal in status or quality; to do justice to.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adaequātiō]]

+ * [[adaequē]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aequo|alt=aequō]]

+ * [[aequus]]

+ * [[en|adequate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}