circumvehor Latin · revision 33949

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɪrˈkʊm.we.(ɦ)ɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [t͡ʃirˈkum.ve.or]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''circumvehor''' (present infinitive circumvehī, perfect active circumvectus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|circum-|vehō|t1=around|t2=to carry, (passive) to ride, sail]], used as a deponent.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|vehō]] to [[itc-pro|*weχ-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*ueǵʰ-e/o-|t=to carry]], cognate with [[sa|वहति|tr=váhati|t=to carry, convey]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it first: in the ''Menaechmi'' a traveller says they have sailed round the Histrians, Spaniards, people of Massilia, Illyrians and all the coasts of Italy, and in the ''Mostellaria'' someone has sailed to lonely lands and the farthest shores.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to travel to places in turn or make the round of them, usually by sea, as in Plautus.^(OLD 2012) With an accusative it is to travel round or past: Nepos has someone sailing round the Peloponnese.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short add riding round in a carriage or on horseback, and note that it is classical but not used by Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL says it is mostly used of people sailing in ships, and also of ships.^(TLL) Apuleius uses it of the Ocean flowing round past the Pillars of Hercules.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of sailing round many coasts.^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos of sailing round the Peloponnese.^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius of the Ocean flowing round.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To travel to in turn, make the round of.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To ride, drive or [[m|en|sail]] round or past.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(of the sea)'' To flow round.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[circumvectiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vehō]]

+ * [[circumeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}