amplifico Latin · revision 33900

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=220–130 BC, Pacuvius|origins=la amplus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [amˈplɪ.fɪ.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [amˈpliː.fi.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''amplificō''' (present infinitive amplificāre, perfect active amplificāvī, supine amplificātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|amplus|-ficō|t1=large, ample]], with the combining form of [[m|la|faciō|t=to make]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Etymonline) De Vaan derives [[m|la|amplus]] from [[itc-pro|*am-lo-|t=seizable]] and the root [[ine-pro|*h₃mh₃-|t=to grab]], but notes difficulties with the sound changes this requires.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL reads it first in Pacuvius,^(TLL) where touching increases a cruel pain.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to make larger: Cicero speaks of increasing a fortune and wealth,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Valerius Maximus of increasing the number of the senate, and the Vulgate of widening the entrance of a house.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of sound it is to make louder.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca uses it of what strengthens and enlarges the mind.^(OLD 2012) Of persons it is to advance someone's influence and prestige, as when Cicero says the Roman people had always defended, advanced and honoured him.^(OLD 2012) It also means to praise loudly, to extol, and in rhetoric to enlarge upon and magnify a point: Cicero says an accuser must magnify in words the impulse of the accused.^(OLD 2012) Stelten gives "increase" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995) Through Old French it is the source of the English [[m|en|amplify]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius of increasing pain.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of increasing wealth and of rhetorical amplification.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of enlarging the mind.^(OLD 2012)

+ * early 15th century – [[m|en|amplify]] appears in English, from Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make larger, [[m|en|enlarge]], extend, [[m|en|increase]]; to make (a sound) louder.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To increase the influence or prestige of, advance.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To praise loudly, [[m|en|extol]], exalt.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' To enlarge upon, [[m|en|magnify]], emphasize.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[amplificātiō]]

+ * [[amplificātor]]

+ * [[amplificatrix]]

+ * [[amplificē]]

+ * [[amplificus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[amplus]]

+ * [[faciō]]

+ * [[en|amplify]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}