concredo Latin · revision 33632

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *ḱred-dʰeh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''concrēdō''' (present infinitive concrēdere, perfect active concrēdidī, supine concrēditum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus has the perfect ''concrēduī'' and the future perfect ''concrēduō''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|crēdō|t2=to entrust, believe]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|crēdō]] to [[itc-pro|*krezde/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*ḱred-dʰeh₁-|t=to place in the heart, believe]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|creitid|t=to believe]] and [[sa|श्रद्धा|tr=śraddhā́-|t=confidence, devotion]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is frequent in Plautus,^(TLL) as in the ''Aulularia'': “this man's grandfather entrusted to me a treasure of gold”, ''mihi avus huius concredidit thesaurum auri''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to entrust for safe keeping, to consign or commit, and to confide a secret:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus has gold entrusted to someone's good faith and a matter to someone's silence.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL finds it only once each in Catullus, Virgil, Horace's Satires and Propertius, twice in Cicero, then in Columella, Silius and later authors.^(TLL) Cicero speaks of entrusting one's property and reputation to someone,^(Lewis & Short 1879) Catullus of entrusting a son to the winds, Horace of confiding trifles, and Columella of committing tender vines to a warm climate.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that Quintilian never uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Church Latin it is to entrust, consign or commit.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of entrusting gold.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of entrusting property and reputation.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus, of a son entrusted to the winds.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella, of vines.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|entrust]] for safe keeping, to [[m|en|consign]], commit.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|confide]] a secret.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[crēdō]]

+ * [[commendō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}