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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈeː.rɔ.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɛː.ro.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ērogō''' (present infinitive ērogāre, perfect active ērogāvī, supine ērogātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Festus has ''exrogāre''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|rogō|t2=to ask]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Lewis & Short explain it as a term of public law, to pay out money from the treasury after asking the people's consent.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero asks Vatinius whether he paid out money from the treasury under his own laws.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to pay out or expend public money, originally after a ''rogātiō'' had been passed;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy uses it too.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is then any spending, and the use of something for a purpose: Valerius Maximus has a man always busier paying out money than getting it, and figuratively one giving up his life for his parents.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) In Frontinus it is said of water distributed from an aqueduct.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Apuleius uses it of begging alms at the crossroads, and Festus defines it as removing something from an old law by a new one.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it distribute, pay out, bequeath.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of public money.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius of begging alms.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To pay out, [[m|en|disburse]], [[m|en|expend]] public money; to spend; to use for a purpose.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To deliver water from a reservoir or aqueduct.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To obtain by [[m|en|entreaty]]; to prevail on by entreaty.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To remove a provision of an old law by a new law.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To distribute; to [[m|en|bequeath]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ērogātiō]]

+ * [[ērogātor]]

+ * [[superērogō]]

+ * [[ērogātōrius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rogo|alt=rogō]]

+ * [[rogatio|alt=rogātiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}