suborno Latin · revision 32649

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sʊˈboːr.noː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [suˈbɔr.no]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''subōrnō''' (present infinitive subōrnāre, perfect active subōrnāvī, supine subōrnātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sub-|ōrnō|t2=to equip, adorn]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) De Vaan takes [[m|la|ōrnō]] as the original verb formed from [[m|la|ōrdō|t=row, order]], through ⟨*ōrd-n-āre⟩; the origin of that noun is uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In the OLD's earliest quotations Cicero exclaims that Roscius suborned a false witness, and writes of how man comes into life equipped by nature.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short separate senses where the verb prevails, to fit out or equip, from those where the prefix does, to incite secretly.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the first, Antony writes of furnishing someone with money, Plancus asks Cicero to equip those in the battle line, and Seneca has men dressed up as soldiers.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Petronius has a host who keeps a trumpeter dressed for the purpose, so that he always knows how much of his life he has lost.^(OLD 2012) In the second it is to prepare or instruct someone for an underhand purpose, above all to suborn a witness, in Cicero and Quintilian.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to instigate secretly, bribe, equip, provide.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|suborn]] comes from it, partly through French, from the 1530s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of suborning a false witness.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of men dressed as soldiers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius of a trumpeter kept dressed for duty.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – English [[m|en|suborn|alt=suborn]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To supply, [[m|en|equip]], furnish.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To dress up, disguise; to put on an appearance.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To prepare or instruct secretly; to [[m|en|suborn]] a witness, [[m|en|instigate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[subornator]]

+ * [[subornātrix]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ōrnō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}