dinumero Latin · revision 34389

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la numerus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [diːˈnʊ.mɛ.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [diˈnuː.me.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dīnumerō''' (present infinitive dīnumerāre, perfect active dīnumerāvī, supine dīnumerātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dis-|numerō|t2=to count]].^(Georges 1913)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[m|la|numerus|t=number]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*nomeso-]] and probably to an s-stem [[ine-pro|*nem-e/os-|t=apportioning]]; he compares [[grc|νέμω|tr=némō|t=to dispense, distribute]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan first finds it in Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) where in the ''Epidicus'' it is used of counting out the money owed for her.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Plautus and Terence use it of counting out or paying money.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Its wider sense is to [[m|en|count]] or reckon up: Cicero speaks of counting syllables and the stars, Virgil of counting the times, and Pliny the Elder of the place where Xerxes counted his army.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In a letter Cicero writes of someone that he ''centuriat Capuae, dīnumerat''; the OLD takes this as paying the soldiers, while the TLL understands counting the troops at the levy and notes the other view.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Jurists such as Gaius use it of reckoning a number as the basis of a calculation, and Apuleius of enumerating, as when Plato names three kinds of love.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) The Vulgate has it in a psalm of counting all one's bones, and an Old Latin version of Acts of being numbered with the apostles.^(Georges 1913)^(TLL) Medieval writers used it for enumerating and naming.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of counting out money.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of counting syllables and stars.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of counting times.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 140–180 AD – Gaius uses it of reckoning a basis of calculation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|count]], reckon up the number of.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To count out (money), pay out.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(law)'' To take (a number) as the basis of a calculation, reckon.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To recount, [[m|en|enumerate]].^(OLD 2012)^(MLW)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dīnumerātiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}