discordo Latin · revision 33822

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''discordō''' (present infinitive discordāre, perfect active discordāvī, supine discordātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|discors|-ō|t1=disagreeing]], a verb made from the adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) [[m|la|discors]] is a compound of [[m|la|dis-]] and [[m|la|cor|t=heart]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*kord]] and [[ine-pro|*ḱērd|t=heart]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan finds it first in Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who in the ''Mercator'' uses it of goats that might quarrel.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Terence has it of people at odds with each other, and Livy of three quarrelling generals;^(OLD 2012) Tacitus uses it of soldiers quarrelling and listening to the worst men's talk, and of a feud without end with the Cherusci.^(OLD 2012) It is also used of animals and things, as Columella's kinds of fruit that spoil one another and Pliny the Younger's conflicting winds.^(OLD 2012) From quarrelling it came to mean differing or being inconsistent, as Seneca says that a man whose acts disagree has no upright mind, and Horace contrasts the miser and the thrifty man.^(OLD 2012) The TLL also records a deponent ⟨discordor⟩.^(TLL) Stelten glosses it “disagree”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, of people quarrelling.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of generals at odds.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of inconsistent actions.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To be at [[m|en|variance]], [[m|en|quarrel]], disagree.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To differ, be inconsistent or [[m|en|incongruous]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[discordābilis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[discors]]

+ * [[discordia]]

+ * [[concordō]]

+ * [[cor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}