isto Latin · revision 33599

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *es-to-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''istō''' (adverb)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Beside it stand ''istōc'' and ''istūc''; the TLL notes that Plautus uses ''istō'' only in everyday or familiar speech.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a derivative of [[m|la|iste|t=that of yours]], formed like [[m|la|eō#2|t=thither]] and [[m|la|quō|t=whither]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces [[m|la|iste]] to [[itc-pro|*es-to-]], whose second element is the pronoun [[ine-pro|*so-]], [[m|ine-pro|*to-]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[xum|estu|t=this]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) whose ''Miles Gloriosus'' has a woman promise to go in there, where she is told: ''isto me intro ituram quo iubes''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to the place where the person addressed is, thither, to where you are:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero writes in his letters of coming to his correspondent, and of his reasons for hurrying there.^(Lewis & Short 1879) With verbs of adding or mixing it means into that category or sum that you speak of, as when Cicero tells his brother there is no reason to add Trebatius to that number.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of going in there.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, in letters, of coming to where his correspondent is.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # To the place where you are, [[m|en|thither]], there.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Into that category or sum (that you speak of).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[iste]]

+ * [[istūc]]

+ * [[istīc#2]]

+ * [[istinc]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}