inno Latin · revision 33223

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *(s)neh₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɪn.noː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈin.no]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''innō''' (present infinitive innāre, perfect active innāvī, supine innātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|nō|t2=to swim]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|nō]] to [[itc-pro|*(s)nāje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*(s)neh₂-|t=to swim, float]];^(de Vaan 2008) cognate with [[grc|νήχω|tr=nḗkhō|t=to swim]] and [[sga|snaïd|t=swims]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero's ''De natura deorum'' speaks of sea beasts, some under water, some floating and swimming.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to swim in or on, with a dative, an ablative or, in poetry, an accusative: Virgil's nymphs swim side by side, Cloelia swims the river, and animals swim rapid streams.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Columella will teach boys to swim in rivers, and Suetonius has sea beasts swimming in Nero's mock sea fight.^(Georges 1913)^(OLD 2012) Of boats it is to float or sail: Virgil has painted keels floating on the river, Livy rough hulls built only to float, and Tacitus a fleet made lighter to sail the shallows;^(OLD 2012) Seneca reports Thales' view that the earth floats on water.^(OLD 2012) Virgil also uses it of a passenger crossing the Stygian lakes.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Horace has the Liris flowing over the shores of Marica.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of swimming sea beasts.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of swimming nymphs and floating keels.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace, of a river flowing over its shores.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of a fleet in shallow water.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|swim]] in or on.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of boats, to [[m|en|float]], sail on; to sail across.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of water, to [[m|en|flow]] over, wash.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[innābilis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nō]]

+ * [[natō]]

+ * [[innatō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}