conamen Latin · revision 36369

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=la cōnor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [koːˈnaː.mɛn]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [koˈnaː.men]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnāmen''' ''n'' (genitive cōnāminis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cōnor|-men|t1=to try, attempt|t2=noun suffix]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs the verb as [[itc-pro|*kōnāje/o-|t=to attempt]], perhaps from [[ine-pro|*ḱōn-|t=ascent]], but marks the root with a query.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Lucretius,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of the effort of birds' wings that comes to nothing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was mostly a poetic word.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It meant an exertion of strength or a struggle, as when a great stone is thrown with a great effort in Ovid, or the power to move;^(OLD 2012) and, often in the plural, an attempt or enterprise, as Ovid's attempts at death and Velleius' judgement that Catullus was not inferior in any attempt of the work he undertook.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid once used it concretely for a support or prop, of an infant first standing upright.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ Medieval writers used it for effort and impetus, often in the phrase ''tōtō cōnāmine'', with all one's might;^(DMLBS) Köbler also lists the senses of an intention or plan and an unlawful proceeding.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of the effort of wings.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it for a mighty effort, for attempts and for a prop.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 20 BC–30 AD – Velleius Paterculus uses it of a literary attempt.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 639–709 AD – Aldhelm writes of keeping God's commands with all the effort of the mind.^(DMLBS)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An exertion of strength, an [[m|en|effort]], a struggle; the power to move.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # An [[m|en|attempt]], [[m|en|endeavour]], enterprise.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A support, [[m|en|prop]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cōnāmentum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cōnābilis]]

+ * [[cōnātiō]]

+ * [[cōnātum]]

+ * [[cōnātus]]

+ * [[cōnor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}