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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la narrō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēnārrō''' (present infinitive ēnārrāre, perfect active ēnārrāvī, supine ēnārrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|narrō|t2=to tell]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists it, with the simple verb, among the derivatives of [[m|la|gnārus|t=knowing]]; the simple verb lost the ⟨g-⟩ that the adjective kept on the model of [[m|la|ignārus]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus on,^(de Vaan 2008) first in the ''Amphitruo'': ''ea tibi omnia ēnarrāvī'', “I have told you all of that”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it meant to tell a thing in full and in order: Terence has a whole affair told to an old man, Cicero a dream told to the senate, Livy feelings that could hardly be put into words.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) From Quintilian on it was also the word for explaining a text, as a teacher expounds the poets, and Gellius asks to have a word explained.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Gellius also has a comparative adverb ''ēnārrātius'', “more explicitly”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Ecclesiastical Latin used it for declaring and proclaiming,^(Stelten 1995) and medieval writers for reporting, relating and praising.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it for telling something in full.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence has an affair told in order.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero tells of a dream related to the senate.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it for explaining poems.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius asks to have a word explained.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|relate]] or describe fully, [[m|en|recount]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To explain, [[m|en|expound]], [[m|en|interpret]] (a text).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To declare, proclaim, show forth.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ēnārrābilis]]

+ * [[ēnārrātiō]]

+ * [[ēnarrātor]]

+ * [[inēnarrātus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}