indago Latin · revision 33137

+ {{homograph|1|track, investigate}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''indāgō''' (present infinitive indāgāre, perfect active indāgāvī, supine indāgātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The verb is [[der|la|indāgō#2|t=ring of hunters]], as the OLD has it;^(OLD 2012) the TLL derives it from that noun or from an adjective ⟨*ind-agus⟩, comparing pairs such as [[m|la|cālīgō]] beside its verb.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it in the ''Mercator'', of whether a woman could be traced by asking what the buyer looked like, and in the ''Trinummus'' of finding out the facts.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to track down animals, as a hunting dog does: Cicero has a dog born for tracking, and Columella says a good hunter takes as many beasts as he can in a great forest.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) More generally it is to search out persons or things, and to find out facts by investigation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Varro has a deponent ''indāgor''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Döderlein groups it with verbs of seeking that involve taking pains.^(Döderlein 1874) Stelten gives “investigate, inquire”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of tracing a woman and finding out facts.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro has the deponent.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a tracking dog.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|track]] down, hunt out (animals).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To search out, find by seeking; to [[m|en|investigate]], find out.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[indāgātiō]]

+ * [[indāgātor]]

+ * [[indāgātrīx]]

+ * [[indāgābilis]]

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+ {{homograph|2|ring of hunters, encircling}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=ine-pro *h₂eǵ-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''indāgō''' ''f'' (genitive indāginis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The noun is [[af|la|indu-|agō|t1=in|t2=to drive]], compared by the OLD with [[m|la|ambāgēs]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|agō]] to [[ine-pro|*h₂eǵ-e/o-|t=to drive, lead]], cognate with [[grc|ἄγω|tr=ágō|t=to drive, lead]] and [[osc|acum|t=to act]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short find it mostly in post-Augustan writers; its first citation is Virgil's hunters circling the glades with a ring of nets.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a ring of hunters or nets thrown round a wood so that game cannot escape,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and by extension the surrounding of enemies, as Florus has of ships caught as if in a net.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Ulpian uses it of the game taken in one such drive.^(OLD 2012) It also means a search or investigation, as Gellius has of the gluttons' hunt for delicacies far and wide.^(OLD 2012) In Late Latin it is a judicial inquiry,^(Wiktionary) and in Medieval Latin a game park or forest,^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Wiktionary) and in Hungary a border march.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of a hunters' ring.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius, of a search for delicacies.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A ring of hunters or nets round a wood; the game so caught.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A surrounding of enemies.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A tracking down, search, [[m|en|investigation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Late Latin, law)'' A judicial inquiry.^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A game park, [[m|en|forest]]; a border march.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[agō]]

+ * [[ambāgēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}