innato Latin · revision 33500

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɪn.na.toː], [ɪnˈnaː.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈin.na.to], [inˈnaː.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''innatō''' (present infinitive innatāre, perfect active innatāvī, supine innatātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|natō|t1=in, on|t2=to swim]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan explains [[m|la|natō]] as built on an old participle of [[m|la|nō|t=to swim]],^(de Vaan 2008) which goes back to [[itc-pro|*(s)nāje/o-|t=to swim]] and [[ine-pro|*(s)neh2-|t=to swim, float]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|snaïd|t=to swim]] and [[grc|νήχω|tr=nḗkhō|t=to swim]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The earliest passage the OLD quotes is in Cicero's ''De natura deorum'', of little fish that swim into a gaping shell: ''cum pisciculi parvi in concham hiantem innataverunt''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is used of swimming in or on water, as Pliny's dog that swam to hold up a corpse thrown into the Tiber, and of a boat floating on the waves in Germanicus.^(OLD 2012) Virgil uses it with an accusative, ''undam innatat alnus'', “the alder boat swims the wave”.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of things lying on a surface it means to float: in Horace lettuce that floats on a sour stomach after wine, that is, stays undigested.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Celsus uses it of the patella, which lies on top without being attached to any bone.^(OLD 2012) Of water it means to flow over: Pliny has the Nile flooding the land, Ovid fresh water flowing over the sea,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Lucan a shallow wave running over the surface.^(OLD 2012) Quintilian speaks figuratively of a facility with words that only floats on the surface.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of fish swimming into a shell.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace, of food floating undigested in the stomach.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus, of the loosely attached patella.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of swimming and of the Nile's flood.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|swim]] in or on; of a boat, to float on; to swim into.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|float]] on the surface (of a liquid); of food, to lie undigested; of things loosely attached, to lie on top.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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

+ # ''(figurative)'' To float on the surface, be superficial.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[natō]]

+ * [[nō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}