coopto Latin · revision 33105

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *h₁op-eie-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cooptō''' (present infinitive cooptāre, perfect active cooptāvī, supine cooptātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also written ''cōptō'', as in inscriptions and a letter of Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|optō|t2=to choose]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|optō]] to [[itc-pro|*opeje-|t=to choose, grab]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁op-eie-|t=to choose, grab]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL reads it first in Cicero,^(TLL) who in the speeches against Verres speaks of choosing senators.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a technical term of public life: to choose someone as a colleague or a member of one's college, to co-opt.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it of admission to the senate and of election to the college of augurs;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy quotes an old formula with the perfect subjunctive ''cooptāssint'' for tribunes of the plebs co-opting colleagues, and Suetonius has priests chosen by their colleges and Augustus taking a colleague.^(Lewis & Short 1879) More loosely it is to choose or elect: Cicero speaks of a senate that Caesar had chosen for the most part himself.^(OLD 2012) Stelten gives "elect" and also "make fit, join together, get ready" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995) The English [[m|en|co-opt]] was taken from it in the 1650s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of choosing senators and augurs.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy quotes an old formula for co-opting tribunes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of priests chosen by their colleges.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 1650s – [[m|en|co-opt]] appears in English.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To choose as a colleague or member of a [[m|en|college]] or body, to [[m|en|co-opt]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To choose, [[m|en|elect]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To make fit, join together, get ready.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cooptātiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[optō]]

+ * [[en|co-opt]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}