conversor Latin · revision 33426

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Seneca the Elder|origins=la vertō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔnˈwɛr.sɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [koɱˈvɛr.sor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''conversor''' (present infinitive conversārī, perfect active conversātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|versor|t2=to dwell, be engaged in]],^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012) the deponent of [[m|la|versō|t=to turn often]], which is a frequentative of [[m|la|vertō|t=to turn]].^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary traces that verb to [[ine-pro|*wert-|t=to turn]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest quotation in the OLD is from Seneca the Elder, who has it with a dative: ''conversāta es cruentīs'', “you have kept company with bloodstained men”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to keep company or live with someone, with a dative or with ''cum'',^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) and to frequent or stay in a place: Pliny the Elder says the eagle lives in the mountains,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) and Columella uses it of young bees getting used to living with their parents without quarrels.^(Georges 1913) Seneca writes that people take on the character of those they live with, using the participle ''conversantēs'' as a noun.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) The jurists, and later Tertullian, use it of how one conducts oneself or behaves.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to dwell, live, abide and keep company with.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca writes of the people one lives among.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of young bees.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of the eagle's haunts.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of a son's conduct.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it of behaviour.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|consort]] or [[m|en|associate]] with; as a noun, the present participle means an associate.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To [[m|en|frequent]] a place, stay or live there.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To conduct oneself, [[m|en|behave]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To [[m|en|dwell]], live, [[m|en|abide]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[conversātiō]]

+ * [[versor]]

+ * [[vertō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Köbler records a separate noun ''conversor'', formed from [[convertō]], in a 4th-century commentary on Luke.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}