circumpono Latin · revision 34151

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=la pōnō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɪr.kʊmˈpoː.noː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [t͡ʃir.kumˈpɔː.no]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''circumpōnō''' (present infinitive circumpōnere, perfect active circumposuī or circumposīvī, supine circumpositum or circumpostum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|circum-|pōnō|t1=around|t2=to put, place]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan explains [[m|la|pōnō]] as a compound, [[itc-pro|*po-sine/o-]], “to put down”, with the verb [[m|la|sinō|t=to let]]; its old perfect was ⟨-posīvī⟩, and ⟨posuī⟩ was formed later.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL's first example is from Cato's book on farming, ''stramenta circumponito'', “put straw around”.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to place all round something,^(OLD 2012) of things in Cato, Lucretius, Celsus, who has splints placed round bones, and Pliny the Elder,^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and of armed men in Suetonius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) With a dative it means to place near or on either side of: Tacitus writes of a grove ''quod nāvālī stagnō circumposuit Augustus'', “which Augustus planted round the naval basin”,^(Conte 2010)^(TLL) and of two men seated on either side of a curule chair.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) It is also used of putting a round object on, as a diadem in Fronto's letters.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Horace uses it of setting pepper out in little dishes.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) In the Vulgate a gold chain is put around a neck, ''collō torquem auream circumposuit''.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) The neuter plural participle ''circumposita'' means the surrounding country.^(Georges 1913)^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of straw put round plants.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of the surrounding air.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of pepper in little dishes.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus has it with a dative.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate has ''collō torquem auream circumposuit''.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To place all round, set or put [[m|en|around]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # (with a dative) To place near or on either side of.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To put (a round object such as a [[m|en|diadem]]) on.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To set out (food) on the table.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[circumpositio]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pōnō]]

+ * [[circumdō]]

+ * [[circum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}