appropero Latin · revision 34672

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 200 BC, Plautus|origins=la properō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''approperō''' (present infinitive approperāre, perfect active approperāvī, supine approperātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''adproperō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|properō|t2=to hurry]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It appears first in Plautus, who uses it intransitively, “to hurry up, hasten”: ''adproperābō'', “I'll make haste”, in the ''Asinaria''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In comedy it is common in commands such as ''adde gradum, adproperā'', “step up, hurry” in Plautus' ''Trinummus'', and Terence and Cicero's letters use it the same way.^(OLD 2012) From the sense of hurrying somewhere it came to mean acting quickly, making haste to do something, with an infinitive in Ovid.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Livy uses it transitively of work done in haste, ''opus adeō approperātum est'', the work was so hurried on that at sunrise the Volsci saw themselves walled in, and Silius Italicus speeds up his pace with it, ''approperō gressum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis and Short list ''festīnō'', ''accelerō'' and ''mātūrō'' as its synonyms.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 200 BC – Plautus uses it of hurrying somewhere.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it in the ''Andria''.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero urges a correspondent to hurry.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it transitively, of work done in haste.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it with an infinitive, “make haste to”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # (intransitive) To come hastily, [[m|en|hurry]] up, [[m|en|hasten]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # (intransitive) To act quickly, make haste (to do something).^(OLD 2012)

+ # (transitive) To do hastily, to [[m|en|accelerate]], speed up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[properō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}