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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [adˈdɪs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [adˈdis.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''addiscō''' (present infinitive addiscere, perfect active addidicī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|discō|t2=to learn]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs the present of [[m|la|discō]] as [[itc-pro|*dikske/o-]] from [[ine-pro|*di-dḱ-sḱ-e/o-]], a reduplicated form with an iterative suffix from a root meaning “to take, accept”, so that the verb first meant “to take in repeatedly”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Cicero,^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) who in the ''De oratore'' wants to hear something from a speaker ''ut aliquid addiscerem'', “so that I might learn something more”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its main sense is to learn in addition or further: Cicero quotes Solon, who boasted that he grew old ''cotidie aliquid addiscentem'', “learning something more every day”, and Suetonius tells of leading men forced to learn German.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) With little or no sense of addition it simply means to learn, as in the younger Seneca and Columella, and Ovid uses it with an infinitive: ''addidici regimen dextra moderante carinae flectere'', “I learnt to steer the ship's helm with my right hand”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) In later writers it means to acquire by learning.^(Georges 1913) Lewis and Short give a sense to be informed, hear, from Justin, where Georges reports that editions now read the simple verb.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) In Ecclesiastical Latin it keeps the senses learn in addition, be informed, hear.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of learning something more.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it with an infinitive.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius has leading men made to learn German.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|learn]] in addition, learn further.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To learn, with little or no idea of addition; with an [[m|en|infinitive]], to learn how to do something.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To be [[m|en|inform|alt=informed]], hear.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[condiscō]]

+ * [[dēdiscō]]

+ * [[discō]]

+ * [[ēdiscō]]

+ * [[indiscō]]

+ * [[perdiscō]]

+ * [[praediscō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}