sumministro Latin · revision 32958

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=itc-pro *minōs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sʊm.mɪˈnɪs.troː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [sum.miˈnis.tro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sumministrō''' (present infinitive sumministrāre, perfect active sumministrāvī, supine sumministrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The OLD enters it as ''subministrō'', with ''summ-'' as a variant.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sub-|ministrō|t2=to serve, supply]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives [[m|la|ministrō]] from [[minister]] “servant”, which goes back to [[itc-pro|*minos-tero-]], built on [[itc-pro|*minōs|t=less]], the source of [[minor]] “smaller”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first quotation in the OLD is Cicero's, of weapons thrown openly and supplied in secret.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to supply, furnish or afford: Cicero writes to his brother, who supplies him with letter-carriers, Caesar the Lingones supplying grain and help sent to the enemy, Vitruvius water supplied, and Pliny the Elder a well that supplied Hannibal with three hundred pounds of silver a day.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Things can be the subject, as soil that supplies moisture to roots, and so can abstract things, as in Seneca's peace itself will supply fears.^(OLD 2012) The ''Bellum Africum'' uses it of sending fresh cavalry as reinforcements to the weary.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) An inscription uses it of acting as an assistant.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it to minister, supply or furnish.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of weapons supplied in secret.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of grain and reinforcements.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius of a water supply.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of peace supplying fears.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

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

+ # To send as reinforcements.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To act as an assistant.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ministro|alt=ministrō]]

+ * [[minister]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}