subnecto Latin · revision 34724

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=la nectō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''subnectō''' (present infinitive subnectere, perfect active subnexuī, supine subnexum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sub-|nectō|t1=under|t2=to bind]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The origin of [[m|la|nectō]] is uncertain: one old view takes it as a remake of an earlier verb related to [[m|la|nōdus|t=knot]], another connects it with [[ine-pro|*h₂nḱ-|t=to reach]]; de Vaan finds neither convincing.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first examples are in Virgil, who in the ''Georgics'' tells farmers to tie loose rings of twigs round calves' necks,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and in the ''Aeneid'' has a golden brooch fastening a purple garment.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short call it poetic and found in post-Augustan prose, and give [[subligō]] as a synonym.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid has it of fastening a sail to the yards, and Pliny the Elder of tying something to the neck with thread.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ From binding one thing under another it came to mean adding something next in speech or writing: Valerius Maximus attaches foreign examples to Roman ones, Quintilian writes of adding judgement to invention, and Juvenal says he could add other reasons.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Apuleius uses it to introduce a quotation.^(OLD 2012) Justinus has it of adding a story.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of tying rings round calves' necks and of fastening a garment.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of fastening a sail.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of adding in speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal uses it of adding reasons.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|bind]] or tie one thing under another.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|fasten]] up, of a buckle or clasp.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To add next in speech or writing, [[m|en|subjoin]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nectō]]

+ * [[adnectō]]

+ * [[cōnectō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}