consummatus Latin · revision 33602

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=4 BC–65 AD, Seneca|origins=ine-pro *(h1)up-m(H)o-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnsummātus''' (feminine ''cōnsummāta'', neuter ''cōnsummātum''); first/second-declension adjective; superlative ''cōnsummātissimus''^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the past participle of [[m|la|cōnsummō|t=to sum up, complete]], used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|con-]] and [[m|la|summa|t=sum, total]], from [[m|la|summus|t=highest]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*sup(a)mo-]] and [[ine-pro|*(h1)up-m(H)o-|t=highest]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates the adjective from Seneca,^(Köbler 2010) who in ''On Benefits'' has a father say that he gave his son life, but the son gave him a complete and perfect one: ''ego tibi vitam dedi consummatam, perfectam''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it means lacking nothing, complete or perfect,^(OLD 2012) and of persons endowed with perfection, consummate, as Martial's ''consummati Catonis''.^(OLD 2012) In medieval Latin it keeps the sense completed, perfect, mature, and Köbler records it in Albertus Magnus.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of a complete and perfect life.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial, of a consummate Cato.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Lacking nothing, [[m|en|complete]], perfect.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ # Of persons: [[m|en|consummate]], perfect.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cōnsummō]]

+ * [[summa]]

+ * [[summus]]

+ * [[en|consummate]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The OLD also lists it in the verbal senses of [[cōnsummō]], completed, summed up.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}