accuro Latin · revision 34627

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''accūrō''' (present infinitive accūrāre, perfect active accūrāvī, supine accūrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelt ''adcūrō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Plautus has the archaic future perfect ''accūrāssis'' and the passive infinitive ''accūrārier''.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|cūrō|t2=to care for]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[m|la|cūra|t=care]],^(de Vaan 2008) which goes back to [[itc-pro|*kʷois-ā-|t=care, watch]]; he connects this, with some hesitation, with [[ine-pro|*kʷei-s-|t=to heed]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus on,^(de Vaan 2008) meaning “to do something with care”: in the ''Bacchides'' a character promises ''meum pensum ego lepide accūrābō'', “I'll do my task nicely”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Plautus and Terence it is very common, with an object, with ''ut'' or ''nē'' (“to see to it that”), and of preparing a meal;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus also uses it of looking after arriving guests.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Classical prose uses the finite verb rarely, although the participle ''accūrātus'' “careful, elaborate” is frequent in Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero has it in the ''De inventione'' of things that are better managed with forethought, and the Historia Augusta of grooming a beard.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In medieval German sources it means to prepare or adorn something, for instance a royal funeral, and also to arrange or administer.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it for doing a task carefully and for attending to guests.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it with ''ut'' and ''nē''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of matters managed with forethought.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To give [[m|en|attention]] to, to do something with [[m|en|care]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To see to it (that), with ''ut'', ''nē'' or the subjunctive.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # To take care of the provision of (a meal).^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To [[m|en|attend]] to (guests), to entertain.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' To prepare, [[m|en|adorn]]; to arrange, [[m|en|administer]].^(MLW)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[accūrātiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}