concoquo Latin · revision 32618

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''concoquō''' (present infinitive concoquere, perfect active concoxī, supine concoctum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|coquō|t2=to cook]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) De Vaan traces [[m|la|coquō]] to [[itc-pro|*kʷekʷe/o-|t=to cook]] and [[ine-pro|*pekʷ-e/o-|t=to cook]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008) In the OLD's earliest quotation Plautus recalls how Medea boiled old Pelias.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to cook down or heat thoroughly, and to boil together: Lucretius has scents cooked together in oil.^(OLD 2012) Above all it is to digest food, and to aid digestion: Cato says that cabbage aids it wonderfully.^(OLD 2012) Seneca uses it of digesting a thought: pick out one idea a day to digest.^(OLD 2012) It is also to ripen crops, and in medicine to bring boils and humours to a head, as in Cato and Celsus.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is to stomach, tolerate: Cicero writes that Diodotus could not stomach a doctrine.^(OLD 2012) And it is to ponder or devise: Cicero says that something must be long weighed and considered.^(OLD 2012) Celsus and Pliny the Elder also have the spellings ⟨concoqunt⟩ and ⟨concocunt⟩.^(OLD 2012) English [[m|en|concoct]] comes from its past participle, first meaning to digest, from the 1530s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of Medea boiling Pelias.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of digestion and of ripening boils.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of stomaching a doctrine and of pondering.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of digesting a thought.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – English [[m|en|concoct|alt=concoct]], first meaning to digest.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To cook down, heat thoroughly; to boil together; to [[m|en|concoct]] from various ingredients.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|digest]] food; to aid digestion; to digest a thought.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To ripen; in medicine, to bring to a head.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To bear, [[m|en|tolerate]], stomach.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To ponder, consider; to devise.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[concoctiō]]

+ * [[concoctus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[coquō]]

+ * [[dēcoquō]]

+ * [[excoquō]]

+ * [[incoquō]]

+ * [[percoquō]]

+ * [[praecoquō]]

+ * [[recoquō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}