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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la rēmus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈreː.mɪ.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈrɛː.mi.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rēmigō''' (present infinitive rēmigāre, perfect active rēmigāvī, supine rēmigātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|rēmex|-ō|t1=oarsman, rower]],^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) and Wiktionary analyses it as [[m|la|rēmus|t=oar]] with the suffix ⟨-igō⟩.^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists [[m|la|rēmex]] among the derivatives of that noun, which goes back to [[itc-pro|*rē(s)mo-]] and [[ine-pro|*h1reh1-(s)mo-|t=oar]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|ἐρετμόν|tr=eretmón|t=oar]], [[m|grc|ἐρέσσω|tr=eréssō|t=to row]], [[lt|ìrti|t=to row]] and [[ang|rōwan|t=to row]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Cicero on.^(TLL) In the ''Tusculan Disputations'' he uses it in an image: ''statimne nos vela facere an quasi e portu egredientis paululum remigare?'', “shall we set sail at once, or row a little first, as if leaving harbour?”.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to use oars, to row.^(OLD 2012) Caesar writes of rowing without a break, ''non intermisso remigandi labore'',^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) and the author of the ''Alexandrian War'' uses it of a sea battle.^(TLL) Propertius has it of a fleet rowing with a hundred oars, called ''ālae'', “wings”.^(TLL) Seneca writes of those who row against the current,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) and Tacitus of a sea sluggish and heavy for rowers.^(Georges 1913) Claudian uses it with an accusative, ''remigare alnum'', “to row a ship”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Optatus uses it figuratively of souls wavering, though the TLL finds the image obscure and the passage perhaps corrupt.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010) It survives in Italian.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in the ''Tusculan Disputations'' and his letters.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar has ''non intermisso remigandi labore''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius uses it of a fleet.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca writes of rowing against the current.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of rowers in a heavy sea.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To use [[m|en|oar|alt=oars]], to [[m|en|row]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # (poetic, with an accusative) To propel (a ship) with oars.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # (figurative) To [[m|en|waver]].^(Conte 2010)^(TLL)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adrēmigō]]

+ * [[ērēmigō]]

+ * [[rēmigātiō]]

+ * [[subrēmigō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rēmus]]

+ * [[rēmex]]

+ * [[rēmigium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}