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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈfiː.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈfiː.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''refīgō''' (present infinitive refīgere, perfect active refīxī, supine refīxum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|fīgō|t1=back, un-|t2=to fasten]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|fīgō]] to [[ine-pro|*dheigw-e/o-]] or [[m|ine-pro|*dhiHgw-e/o-]]; the older present [[m|la|fīvō]] kept the regular outcome of /gʷ/ between vowels.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[lt|díegti|t=to plant, sting]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short cite it first from Cicero,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) who asks in the ''Philippics'' whether the tablets that the senate had taken down by its decrees would be fixed up again: ''num figentur rursus eae tabulae, quas vos decretis vestris refixistis?''^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to unfasten something fixed to a wall or post, especially the bronze tablets of laws, which were taken down to annul them;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) from this it means to cancel or revoke a law.^(Wiktionary) Pliny the Elder speaks of spoils fixed to a house that not even a buyer was allowed to take down.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also used of detaching other things: Celsus says loose teeth should be pulled out.^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that manuscripts confuse it with [[dēfīgō]], [[reficiō]] and [[refringō]].^(TLL) In Church Latin it means to tear loose, unfasten or pull apart.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of taking down tablets of law.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus, of pulling out loose teeth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of spoils taken down from a house.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|unfasten]], unfix, take down (something fixed to a wall or post).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To take down a law, and so to [[m|en|annul]] or [[m|en|revoke]] it.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To detach, pull out or off.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fīgō]]

+ * [[affīgō]]

+ * [[dēfīgō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}