praecingo Latin · revision 32634

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [prae̯ˈkɪŋ.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [preˈt͡ʃiŋ.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''praecingō''' (present infinitive praecingere, perfect active praecīnxī, supine praecīnctum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prae-|cingō|t2=to gird]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan calls the origin of [[m|la|cingō]] uncertain: he sets up [[itc-pro|*keng-]] and finds no convincing outside cognate.^(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 has a boy sitting in a chair at school girt with a little belt.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to encircle with a belt, gird, mostly in the passive; to be girt up meant one's clothes were tied up for action, as in Plautus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL counts one or two uses each in Plautus, Ennius, Varro, Cicero, Horace and Propertius, and nine in Ovid.^(TLL) It is also to surround like a band: Manilius has signs that circle the middle of the sky.^(OLD 2012) Propertius has Tatius surrounding a spring with a maple palisade.^(OLD 2012) Martial has ''ego tē praecingere possum'', I can gird you.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to gird.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a boy girt with a belt.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius of a spring ringed with a palisade.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Manilius of signs circling the sky.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|gird]], encircle with a belt; in the passive, to have one's clothes girt up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To surround like a band, [[m|en|encircle]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To surround with a border, encompass.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[praecinctiō]]

+ * [[praecinctorium]]

+ * [[praecinctūra]]

+ * [[praecinctus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cingo|alt=cingō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}