aliquo Latin · revision 33304

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *kʷis}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aliquō''' (adverb, not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from ⟨ali-⟩ “some-” and [[m|la|quō|t=whither]],^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) beside [[m|la|aliquis|t=someone]].^(OLD 2012) The second part belongs to the pronoun [[m|la|quis|t=who]], which de Vaan traces to [[ine-pro|*kʷis]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) in whom someone is told to remove a woman to some place out of the city, ''ut aliquo ex urbe amoveas''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to some place, somewhere or other:^(OLD 2012) in the ''Rudens'' someone wonders whether to hire himself out somewhere as a Manducus at the games.^(OLD 2012) It also means in some direction, as in Seneca's “whenever the neck is bent in some direction”,^(OLD 2012) and figuratively towards some course or goal: Cicero says studies are of no use for getting anywhere.^(OLD 2012) Priscian lists it among the indefinite adverbs; it is not used in answer to “where?”.^(TLL) Ulpian, however, has it of place, ''nē aliquō locī morētur'', “that he should not stay anywhere”,^(OLD 2012) and Seneca once, by a conjecture, of manner, in some way.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of removing someone from the city.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of getting somewhere.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian, of place, “anywhere”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # To some place, [[m|en|somewhere]] or other, somewhither;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) in some direction;^(OLD 2012) to some person.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To some end or course of action.^(OLD 2012)

+ # In some place, anywhere.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+ # In some way, [[m|en|somehow]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aliquis]]

+ * [[quō]]

+ * [[aliquā]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}