intego Latin · revision 32745

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''integō''' (present infinitive integere, perfect active intēxī, supine intēctum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|tegō|t2=to cover]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|tegō]] to [[itc-pro|*teg-e/o-|t=to cover]] and [[ine-pro|*(s)teg-e/o-|t=to cover]], comparing [[grc|στέγω|tr=stégō|t=to keep off, keep in]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first quotation is in Plautus' ''Rudens'', where a man sees that his whole farmhouse must be roofed again.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to cover or overlay: Cato has tying and covering plants, Caesar towers covered with hides, Livy a thick fog covering the pass and the plains.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder uses it of animals covered with hide and hair.^(OLD 2012) It is also to roof, and to shelter a person: Propertius asks what portico now shelters a girl.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of roofing a house.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of covering plants.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of towers covered with hides.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a fog covering the plains.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|cover]], overlay; of skin or fur, to cover naturally.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To cover with a [[m|en|roof]]; to [[m|en|shelter]] (a person).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[integumentum]]

+ * [[superintegō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tego|alt=tegō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}