concrepo Latin · revision 34036

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkɔŋ.krɛ.poː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkɔŋ.kre.po]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''concrepō''' (present infinitive concrepāre, perfect active concrepuī, supine concrepitum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|crepō|t2=to rattle, creak]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|crepō]] to [[itc-pro|*krepa-]] and [[ine-pro|*ḱrep-|t=to rattle, crackle]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it frequent in Plautus, who uses it of a door creaking open: the neighbour's door has creaked.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to make a noise, of doors to grate or creak, of musical instruments to sound, of arms to clash.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Sisenna has men massed together clash their arms, and ''digitīs concrepāre'' is to snap one's fingers.^(OLD 2012) Transitively it is to make something sound: Ovid has someone clash Temesan bronze.^(OLD 2012) After Plautus it becomes rare, a few times each in Terence, Cicero, Caesar, Ovid, Propertius and Livy and not at all in Cato, Lucretius, Sallust, Virgil or Horace, and it is used often again from the 2nd century AD.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it sound, resound, rattle.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of creaking doors.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+ * 120–67 BC – Sisenna of clashing arms.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of clashing bronze.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make a noise; of doors, to [[m|en|creak]], grate; to sound, [[m|en|rattle]], [[m|en|clash]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''digitīs concrepāre'': to [[m|en|snap]] one's fingers.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To make sound, clash; to beat.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[concrepatio]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[crepo|alt=crepō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}