percenseo Latin · revision 33874

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *ḱns-eh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɛrˈkẽː.se.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [perˈt͡ʃɛn.se.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''percēnseō''' (present infinitive percēnsēre, perfect active percēnsuī, supine percēnsum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|cēnseō|t1=through|t2=to count, reckon]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|cēnseō]] to [[itc-pro|*knsē-|t=to estimate]] and [[ine-pro|*ḱns-eh₁-|t=to announce]], cognate with Sanskrit and Avestan verbs meaning to speak solemnly;^(de Vaan 2008) Oscan has its own verb ⟨censaum⟩ for passing the census.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The earliest citations in the OLD and Lewis & Short are Cicero's: in a speech on the agrarian law, of surveying Italy and going on to Sicily, and in the ''Partitiones oratoriae'', of going through the places of invention.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is a full count or survey: Livy uses it of reckoning up peoples, and Tacitus of counting the legions.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also to examine closely, as Grattius has of puppies looked over to pick out the bad ones,^(OLD 2012) and Livy uses it of making a tour through Thessaly.^(OLD 2012) In speech it is going over things or listing them, as Cicero says of counting up the favours of the senate.^(OLD 2012) Apuleius has it of reciting a whole string of insults.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of surveying and of enumerating.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of counting peoples and touring a country.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius, of reciting insults.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make a complete count or [[m|en|survey]] of; to reckon up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|examine]] thoroughly; to travel through, make a tour of.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To go over in the mind, [[m|en|review]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To go over in words, [[m|en|enumerate]]; to recite from start to finish.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[percensiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[accēnseō]]

+ * [[cēnseō]]

+ * [[recēnseō]]

+ * [[succēnseō]]

+ * [[suscēnseō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}