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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *bʰh₂u-ie/o-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnfīō''' (present infinitive cōnfierī); irregular, intransitive, serving as a passive of ''cōnficiō''^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|fīō|t2=to become, be made]],^(OLD 2012) used as the present beside [[m|la|cōnficiō|t=to accomplish, make]], as the simple verb serves beside [[m|la|faciō|t=to make]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Georges 1913) The simple verb goes back to [[itc-pro|*fwije/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰh₂u-ie/o-|t=to become]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[osc|fiíet]] and [[sga|biuu|t=I am]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan records it from Terence on,^(de Vaan 2008) but the OLD also cites Plautus, who uses it of money that is soon spent (''confit cito''), and Pacuvius, who says that to old age everything seems to get done slowly.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Terence has ''hoc quom confit quod volo'', “when what I want is being done”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its main sense is “to be done, come about”: Cicero, Caesar, Virgil (''qua ratione quod instat confieri possit'', how what is pressing can be done), Balbus in a letter to Cicero and Tacitus use it so.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) It also means to be made or manufactured, as when Columella has the bread made carefully and Pliny the Elder calls all salt made from wood black,^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) and to be produced or brought about, in Lucretius and Columella.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Livy uses it of a sum to be made up from gold,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Suetonius of daily records being written up and published,^(OLD 2012) and Columella of a period of time being completed.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Arnobius still uses it.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of money that is soon spent.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius uses it of things being done.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of a wish being carried out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of things being produced.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of a sum being made up.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of records being written up.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To be [[m|en|done]], be accomplished; to come about, [[m|en|happen]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To be made or [[m|en|manufacture|alt=manufactured]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To be produced or brought about; to be made up (from something).^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To be recorded in writing.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(of money)'' To be spent, be used up.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(of time)'' To be completed.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cōnficiō]]

+ * [[fīō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}