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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *ǵhu-n-d-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [trãːfˈfʊn.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [transˈfun.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trānsfundō''' (present infinitive trānsfundere, perfect active trānsfūdī, supine trānsfūsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|trāns-|fundō#1|t1=across|t2=to pour]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) De Vaan traces [[m|la|fundō#1]] to [[itc-pro|*χund-]] and [[ine-pro|*ǵhu-n-d-|t=to pour]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|χέω|tr=khéō|t=to pour]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citation is Cato's work on farming, telling the reader to pour water into another jar: ''transfundito in alterum dolium''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to pour from one vessel into another, to decant:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Columella pours water into other vessels and Pliny the Elder molten sand into other furnaces, and Lucan uses it poetically of placing the ashes of the dead in an urn.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Celsus has the passive of blood passing into the veins.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is to transfer affection or feelings from one person to another: Cicero has someone say he had cast off all his love for an actress and transferred it to this woman.^(OLD 2012) In law it is to transfer and merge something into something else, or to pass rights to another, as in Ulpian.^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it is to pour, transfer or transfuse.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|transfuse]] comes from its participle ''trānsfūsus'' in the early 15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato, of pouring into another jar.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus, of blood passing into veins.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English [[m|en|transfuse]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To pour from one vessel into another, [[m|en|decant]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|transfuse]]; in the passive, to pass into.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To transfer (affection or feelings) to another.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(law)'' To transfer and merge; to pass (rights) to another.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[trānsfūsiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fundō#1]]

+ * [[cōnfundō]]

+ * [[effundō]]

+ * [[en|transfuse]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}