discingo Latin · revision 33122

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''discingō''' (present infinitive discingere, perfect active discinxī, supine discinctum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dis-|cingō|t2=to gird]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan finds the origin of [[m|la|cingō]] uncertain; of the cognates proposed, [[lt|kinkýti|t=to bridle horses]] fits in meaning but has a root shape that cannot be Indo-European.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL reads it perhaps from Plautus, then from Cicero on;^(TLL) Cicero writes to his brother that Caesar is in his bosom and that he is not ungirding himself, that is, not neglecting him.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to remove the belt or girdle, and in military use also to disarm:^(OLD 2012) Horace says one must run away with one's tunic ungirt,^(Lewis & Short 1879) Suetonius describes people in tunics and ungirt, and Silius Italicus has someone ungirded of his arms.^(Lewis & Short 1879) As a military punishment soldiers were stripped of their belts: Livy has a commander leave them standing ungirt with drawn swords, and Suetonius says Augustus did the same.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Juvenal uses it of Marius disarming, that is conquering, the Africans,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Martial of the Amazon's belt.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Silius also has it of uncovering deceits, and Sidonius of settling a dispute.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The participle ''discinctus'' is ungirt, as in the Vulgate of the man who has put off his armour, and figuratively loose: Virgil's ungirt Africans, and Horace's spendthrift opposed to the miser Chremes.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Manuscripts sometimes confuse it with [[distinguō]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of not neglecting a friendship.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of an ungirt tunic.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of soldiers ungirt as a punishment.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal of disarming the Africans.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To remove the belt or [[m|en|girdle]] from, [[m|en|ungird]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(military)'' to deprive of the sword-belt, [[m|en|disarm]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' ''discingī'', to relax one's efforts;^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''(of deceits)'' to uncover;^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''(Late Latin)'' to settle (a dispute).^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cingō]]

+ * [[discinctus]]

+ * [[accingō]]

+ * [[cingulum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}