adnato Latin · revision 34645

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Bellum Alexandrinum|origins=ine-pro *(s)neh₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈan.na.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈad.na.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''adnatō''' (present infinitive adnatāre, perfect active adnatāvī, supine adnatātum); first conjugation, no passive^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''annatō'', the head form in Lewis and Short and in Georges.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|natō|t2=to swim]].^(OLD 2012)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains [[m|la|natō]] as built on an old participle of [[m|la|nō|t=to swim]], from [[itc-pro|*(s)nato-]] and ultimately [[ine-pro|*(s)neh₂-|t=to swim, float]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is the ''Bellum Alexandrinum'', where a few men swim to the nearest ships (''paucī ad proxima nāvigia adnatārunt'').^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to swim to or up to something, with ''ad'', the dative or no complement:^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Phaedrus writes of creatures swimming up eagerly once their fear is gone, Silius Italicus of a helmsman of a wrecked ship swimming to an empty shore, and Pliny the Elder of creatures swimming up to a person's hand.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) It also means to swim beside or alongside: Pliny writes of sea snakes swimming alongside that frightened a fleet, and Seneca of swimming along the side of a ship.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) In medieval Latin it is used of the body of a saint carried by the waves to Strasbourg.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 15 BC–c. 50 AD – Phaedrus uses it of swimming up to something.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of swimming alongside a ship.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of sea snakes swimming alongside a fleet.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius Italicus uses it of a shipwrecked helmsman.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|swim]] to or up to.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # To swim beside or [[m|en|alongside]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}