coacervo Latin · revision 33572

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=la acervus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ko.aˈkɛr.woː]^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''coacervō''' (present infinitive coacervāre, perfect active coacervāvī, supine coacervātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|acervō|t2=to heap up]], from [[m|la|acervus|t=heap]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) The origin of that noun is uncertain: Rix connects it with [[m|la|acus|t=chaff]] through a pre-Italic [[m|itc-pro|*akesuo-]], which de Vaan finds possible in form but a guess in meaning.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citation is from Varro, who speaks of the bones of Gauls heaped up in one place: ''Gallorum ossa … ibi coacervata''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to gather into a heap or crowd together: Caesar has corpses heaped up and enemies crowding at narrow gates.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short find it most often in Cicero and mostly in prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of money and property it is to amass, as Cicero's money piled up by every means, and Livy's gold and silver.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also took abstract objects, griefs in Ovid, arguments and commonplaces in Cicero, who notes that likely points, small in themselves, carry weight when heaped together.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Catullus uses it of building a tomb by piling up earth, and the jurist Javolenus of adding up sums.^(OLD 2012) Lactantius heaps up errors,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Church Latin keeps the sense to heap up, collect.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of bones heaped up.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of money amassed and of arguments.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of corpses piled up.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–317 AD – Lactantius, of errors heaped up.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|heap]] up, pile up; to crowd together.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|amass]], collect (money, possessions).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To accumulate (griefs, arguments).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To make by heaping up (a mound, a tomb).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To add together, [[m|en|total]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[coacervātim]]

+ * [[coacervātiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[acervus]]

+ * [[acervō]]

+ * [[en|coacervate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}