adaugeo Latin · revision 34626

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂eug-s-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [aˈdau̯.ɡe.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [aˈdaːu̯.d͡ʒe.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''adaugeō''' (present infinitive adaugēre, perfect active adauxī, supine adauctum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|augeō|t2=to increase]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|augeō]] to [[itc-pro|*augeje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂eug-s-|t=to grow]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first: in the ''Stichus'' a character congratulates Hercules on the increased tithe he had vowed to him.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Georges treats the Plautine passage as a term of sacrificial language, “to offer in addition”.^(Georges 1913) Lucretius uses it of things made more numerous, Terence of harshness made greater, Cicero of crimes piled on crimes, Celsus of a fever, and Vitruvius of adding something as an increment.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) In rhetoric Cicero uses it for making a point seem greater than it is.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In the Old Latin Bible it renders Greek words for “add”,^(TLL) and Ecclesiastical Latin keeps the sense “increase”.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval German sources use it for increasing or furthering, adding, acquiring in addition and helping.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of an increased tithe for Hercules.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of harshness made greater.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of atoms made more numerous.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of crimes piled on crimes and of magnifying a point in a speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * after 220 AD – The Old Latin Bible uses it for “to add”.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make greater, [[m|en|augment]], [[m|en|increase]]; to supplement (with).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To make more numerous.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To add to, [[m|en|intensify]] (something abstract); to crown (with).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To add by way of [[m|en|increment]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To represent as greater than it is, [[m|en|magnify]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(religion)'' To offer in addition.^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' To further; to acquire in addition; to help.^(MLW)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adauctor]]

+ * [[adauctus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}