adno Latin · revision 35725

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *(s)neh₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈan.noː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈad.no]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''adnō''' (present infinitive adnāre, perfect active adnāvī, supine adnātum); first conjugation, no passive^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|nō|t1=to, towards|t2=to swim]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) also spelled ⟨ann-⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) [[m|la|nō]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*(s)nāje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*(s)neh₂-|t=to swim, float]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest use in the OLD is in Cicero's ''De re publica'', where goods produced anywhere can be brought by sea to the city.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The basic sense is “to swim to or towards”: Caesar uses it of soldiers able to swim out to the ships, Livy of men drowning as they swam to the ships, and Gellius of a dolphin that used to swim up to the shore.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Horace has it in a figurative phrase, “more tunnies will swim up”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) It is construed with the accusative, the dative or ''ad''.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ From swimming it passed to sailing, of persons (Virgil, “we few have sailed to your shores”) and of ships (Ovid).^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Tacitus uses it of cavalry swimming beside their horses, and Pliny the Elder of turtles that swim near a people of the coast.^(OLD 2012) Medieval writers still used it of reaching a place by swimming or by boat.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of goods brought to a city by sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of soldiers swimming to ships.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of sailing to a shore.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of horsemen swimming alongside their horses.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius tells of a dolphin swimming up to the shore.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|swim]] to or towards; to reach by swimming.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To [[m|en|sail]] to or towards (of persons or ships); of goods, to be brought by sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To swim alongside or near; to frequent the sea near a place.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Georges files it under the assimilated spelling ''annō''.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}