intexo Latin · revision 34098

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪnˈtɛk.soː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [inˈtɛk.so]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intexō''' (present infinitive intexere, perfect active intexuī, supine intextum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|texō|t2=to weave]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|texō]] to [[itc-pro|*tekse/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*teḱ-s-|t=to fashion]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero uses it of veins and arteries woven together through the whole body.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to weave in or embroider, as Vitruvius' gold woven into a garment, and to embroider with, as the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' has a purple cloak embroidered in many colours.^(OLD 2012) It is to plait or weave together, and to make by plaiting, as Virgil's shield made of three bulls' hides.^(OLD 2012) It is also to cover by twining, as Virgil's elms covered with vines, and to variegate.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is to weave into the fabric of something, as Seneca's course of work into which whatever we suffer is woven, and to work something into a book or speech: Cicero writes to Atticus that he used to write speeches in which he could nowhere bring in Varro.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of veins and of bringing someone into a speech.^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius of gold woven into cloth.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a shield of hides and elms clothed in vines.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, woven into the work.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To weave in, [[m|en|embroider]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To plait or weave together, [[m|en|interweave]], interlace; to make by plaiting.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To cover by twining; to variegate.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To work into, [[m|en|insert]] (in a book or speech).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[intextio]]

+ * [[intextus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[texo|alt=texō]]

+ * [[textus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}