innecto Latin · revision 33070

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=la nectō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''innectō''' (present infinitive innectere, perfect active innexuī, supine innexum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|nectō|t2=to tie, bind]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citations are from Virgil's ''Aeneid'', where Allecto ties a branch of olive into white hair bound with a fillet.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to fasten one thing to another, to tie on:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil also has necks bound with gold, and Ovid temples wreathed with garlands.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Statius uses it of arms thrown round a neck, Celsus of an organ attached to the membranes, and Tacitus of a man connected to the house of Vespasian by marriage.^(OLD 2012) Livy has branches interlaced with one another.^(OLD 2012) With an ablative it means to bind up with something: Virgil has both men's hands bound with equal arms, and Ovid arms clasped round a neck.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is to weave or devise plots: Virgil has ''causās innecte morandī'', "weave reasons for delay".^(OLD 2012) Prudentius has the old infinitive ''innectier''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Stelten glosses it "insert".^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of tying, binding and contriving.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of interlaced branches.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of a connection by marriage.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 348/49–c. 413 AD – Prudentius has ''innectier''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To tie on, [[m|en|fasten]], [[m|en|bind]] (one thing to another); to throw (the arms) round.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To join together, [[m|en|interlace]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ''(passive)'' to be connected with.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To bind up, gird, [[m|en|wreathe]] with.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To weave, devise; to [[m|en|entangle]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nectō]]

+ * [[nexus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}