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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81/79–52/50 BC, Catullus|origins=ine-pro *ǵnh3-sḱé-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nōtēscō''' (present infinitive nōtēscere, perfect active nōtuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|nōtus|-ēscō|t1=known, famous]], an inchoative.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) [[m|la|nōtus]] is the past participle of [[m|la|nōscō|t=to get to know]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*gnōske-]] and [[ine-pro|*ǵnh3-sḱé-|t=to get to know]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|जानाति|tr=jānā́ti|t=knows]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest literary use is in Catullus, who wishes that someone may become better and better known after his death: ''notescatque magis mortuus atque magis''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to become known, of facts,^(OLD 2012) as in an inscription, and of persons to become personally known to someone: Tacitus says that even to be known to Sejanus' freedmen was thought a fine thing.^(OLD 2012) It is also to become well known or famous, as in Catullus and in Propertius, of the fame of a tomb.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus uses it of becoming notorious for crimes, and of news that became known to Tiberius.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus, of becoming famous after death.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius, of the fame of a tomb.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of becoming known and notorious.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To become known.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of persons: to become personally known (to someone).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To become well known, [[m|en|famous]]; to become notorious.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ēnotēscō]]

+ * [[innōtēscō]]

+ * [[pernōtēscō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nōtus]]

+ * [[nōscō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}