comploro Latin · revision 33612

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔmˈpɫoː.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [komˈplɔː.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''complōrō''' (present infinitive complōrāre, perfect active complōrāvī, supine complōrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''conplōrō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|plōrō|t2=to wail]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds no etymology for [[m|la|plōrō]];^(de Vaan 2008) Walde–Hofmann and Ernout–Meillet thought likely the ancient view that [[m|la|explōrō]] first meant to scout a hunting ground by shouting.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL cites it from Cicero's speech ''On his House'', of a death lamented: ''morte complorata''.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) Lewis & Short, on the other hand, call it rare and not found before the Augustan age.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to lament, bewail or mourn for a person or an event, often loudly or all together.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy uses it of the dead and the living mourned together after Cannae, and of a state given up as lost and lamented: ''desperatam complōrātamque rem publicam''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Ovid has household gods lamented,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and the ''Ciris'' uses it without an object, of an old nurse wailing.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a death lamented.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of the dead and the living mourned together.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of household gods.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|lament]], [[m|en|bewail]], mourn for (a person or event), especially loudly or together.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Without an object: to wail, lament.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[complōrātiō]]

+ * [[complōrātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[plōrō]]

+ * [[dēplōrō]]

+ * [[explōrō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}