commemini Latin · revision 36042

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *me-mon-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔmˈmɛ.mɪ.niː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [komˈmɛː.mi.ni]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''commeminī''' (present infinitive commeminisse); third conjugation, no present stem, perfect forms have present meaning, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|meminī|t2=to remember]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) The TLL compares [[m|la|comminīscor|t=to devise]].^(TLL) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of that verb, which goes back to [[itc-pro|*me-mon-]] and [[ine-pro|*me-mon-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ Cognate with the Greek perfect [[m|grc|μέμονα|tr=mémona|t=to intend]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Plautus on, scattered through the whole of Latinity;^(TLL) Plautus and Gellius are fond of it.^(TLL) In the ''Poenulus'' a speaker says ''istaec volo vos commeminisse omnia'', “I want you to remember all this”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to remember clearly or recollect, with an accusative, a genitive, an accusative and infinitive or no object,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) as in Terence's ''si satis commemini'', “if I remember rightly”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Plautus also uses it for knowing something: ''ecquid commeministi Punice?'', “do you know any Punic?”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) With an infinitive it is to remember to do something.^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short call it frequent in Plautus and rare elsewhere;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero and Ovid have it a few times.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ Gellius uses it for mentioning or citing something, verses he gladly quotes or followers of Socrates whom Plato names.^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary marks the sense “mention” as Late Latin.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it often, of remembering and of knowing a language.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence has ''si satis commemini''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of remembering a man.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid has ''si commemini''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it for mentioning or citing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|remember]] clearly, [[m|en|recollect]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(with infinitive)'' To remember to do something.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To know (a language).^(TLL)

+ # To [[m|en|mention]], cite, recall.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[moneō]]

+ * [[rememinī]]

+ * [[reminīscor]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Like [[meminī]], it has only perfect forms, which have present meaning.^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}