adnecto Latin · revision 33034

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [anˈnɛk.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [adˈnɛk.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''adnectō''' (present infinitive adnectere, perfect active adnexuī, supine adnexum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''annectō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|nectō|t2=to tie, bind]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) Etymonline traces [[m|la|nectō]] to [[ine-pro|*ned-|t=to bind, tie]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero quotes verses in which frightened sailors moor their ship for fear of the night,^(OLD 2012) and Varro writes of poles fastened across sloping rods.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to tie on, fasten or attach, and to moor a ship.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it of nature attaching wings, Pomponius Mela of land joined to the shore by a narrow neck, and Fronto of provinces Trajan had annexed to the Roman empire.^(OLD 2012) Tacitus has part of the people attached to great houses, and a fleet joined to an action.^(OLD 2012) It is also to add in speech or writing, and to connect causally: Cicero says man links the future to the present.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it tie, bind, connect, annex.^(Stelten 1995) English ''annex'' (late 14th century) came through Old French from a Medieval Latin frequentative ''annexāre''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of mooring a ship and of connecting the future to the present.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of fastening poles.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of wings.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 100–170 AD – Fronto of annexing provinces.^(OLD 2012)

+ * late 14th century – English ''annex''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To tie on, fasten, [[m|en|attach]]; to [[m|en|moor]] a ship.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To attach a limb or organ; to connect places; to [[m|en|annex]] territory.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To attach to a family; to associate, implicate.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To add in speech or writing; to connect causally.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adnexus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[necto|alt=nectō]]

+ * [[en|annex]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}