mendico Latin · revision 33166

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *m(e)ndo-/ā-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [mɛnˈdiː.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [menˈdiː.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''mendīcō''' (present infinitive mendīcāre, perfect active mendīcāvī, supine mendīcātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ There is also a deponent ''mendīcor'', with the old infinitive ''mendīcārier'' in Plautus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|mendīcus|-ō|t1=beggarly; a beggar]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The OLD derives [[m|la|mendīcus]] from [[m|la|mendum|t=fault, defect]], and Wiktionary from its variant [[m|la|menda]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|mendum]] to [[itc-pro|*m(e)ndo-/ā-]], perhaps cognate with [[sga|mind|t=sign]]; a derivation from [[ine-pro|*mn-|t=to think]] he calls only a theoretical possibility.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has both uses: in the ''Bacchides'' it is to go begging, and in the ''Amphitruo'' to beg for something, there for trouble.^(OLD 2012) He also has a deponent infinitive ⟨mendīcārier⟩ in the prologue of the ''Captīvī''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-classical: it is to live by begging, and with an object to ask for something as a beggar.^(Lewis & Short 1879) A deponent ''mendīcor'' is found in Plautus.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Stelten gives “beg” for Church Latin, with both forms.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of begging and of begging for something.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To go [[m|en|begging]], be a [[m|en|beggar]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To beg for.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mendīcus]]

+ * [[mendīcitās]]

+ * [[mendum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}