adnumero Latin · revision 32513

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [anˈnʊ.mɛ.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [adˈnuː.me.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''adnumerō''' (present infinitive adnumerāre, perfect active adnumerāvī, supine adnumerātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''annumerō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|numerō|t2=to count]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|numerō]] is formed from [[m|la|numerus|t=number]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*nomeso-]] and [[ine-pro|*nem-e/os-|t=apportioning]], comparing [[grc|νέμω|tr=némō|t=to dispense, distribute]] and [[m|grc|νόμος|tr=nómos|t=custom, law]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first: a man says that a talent of silver was counted out to him alone.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is first to count out money, to pay: Terence has money paid out on the spot.^(OLD 2012) Gellius uses it of reckoning time, the Roman day counted from midnight to midnight.^(OLD 2012) It is also to enumerate: Cicero says that in translating he did not think he should count words out to the reader one by one.^(OLD 2012) Then it is to include in a total or count among, and to assign: Pliny the Elder writes of stars assigned to individual mortals.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it number, count again, enumerate.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of counting out silver.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of paying out money.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of counting out words.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius of reckoning days.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To count out, [[m|en|pay]] out; to reckon time.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|enumerate]], count, run through.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To include in a total, count in; to count among, rank with; to [[m|en|assign]], attribute.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[annumerātiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[abnumerō]]

+ * [[numerō]]

+ * [[pernumerō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}