mutuor Latin · revision 32785

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=itc-pro *moito-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈmuː.tu.ɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈmuː.tu.or]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''mūtuor''' (present infinitive mūtuārī, perfect active mūtuātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ An active form ''mūtuō'', ''-āre'' also occurs, first in Caecilius.^(OLD 2012) Vitruvius and Pliny the Elder use the perfect participle in a passive sense.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|mūtuus|-ō|t1=borrowed, lent]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|mūtuus]], like [[m|la|mūtō|t=to change]], to a noun [[itc-pro|*moito-|t=(object of) change]], for which he considers [[ine-pro|*h₂moi-to-]] and a form from the root of [[mitto|alt=mittō]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Cato.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to borrow money or goods: Caesar has borrowing money, Cicero borrowing from Caelius, Tacitus a borrowed house.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Transferred, it is to borrow words or ideas: Cicero speaks of coining a new word or borrowing one from a similar thing, and says that virtue took its name from men; in Livy rash counsel is borrowed from love.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it classical, the opposite of lending.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to borrow.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 230/220–168 BC – Caecilius with the active form.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of borrowing money and words.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of counsel borrowed from love.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|borrow]] (money, goods).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To borrow (words, ideas), take over, derive.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mutuus|alt=mūtuus]]

+ * [[muto|alt=mūtō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}