coemo Latin · revision 32662

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=ine-pro *h₁em-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈko.ɛ.moː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkɔː.e.mo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''coëmō''' (present infinitive coëmere, perfect active coēmī, supine coēmptum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|emō|t2=to buy]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|emō]] to [[itc-pro|*eme/o-|t=to take]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁em-e/o-|t=to take]], comparing [[lt|im̃ti|t=to take]] and [[osc|emmens|t=bought]].^(de Vaan 2008) Lewis & Short note a contracted form [[como|alt=cōmō]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short quote it first from Terence.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to buy together or buy up, in Caesar, Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Suetonius and Juvenal.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) The Monumentum Ancyranum, the Res Gestae of Augustus, spells ⟨coempto⟩.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it to buy, purchase together.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|buy]] up, [[m|en|purchase]] together.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[coēmptiō]]

+ * [[coemptor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[emo|alt=emō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}