mingo Latin · revision 36410

+ {{infobox|confidence=disputed|formation=inherited|origins=ine-pro *h₃mi-n-ǵʰ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈmɪŋ.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈmiŋ.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''mingō''' (present infinitive mingere, perfect active mīnxī, supine mīnctum or mīctum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Scholars disagree on its age.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL) If it is old, as the LIV holds, it is [[inh|itc-pro|*ming-e/o-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*h₃mi-n-ǵʰ-|t=to urinate]], a present with a nasal infix beside [[m|la|meiō]], which continues [[m|ine-pro|*h₃meiǵʰ-(i)e-]].^(de Vaan 2008) Walde and Hofmann, followed by others, regard it as a secondary present made from the perfect ⟨mīnxī⟩;^(de Vaan 2008) the OLD and the TLL describe how ⟨mīnxī⟩, then ⟨mīnctum⟩ and the present, were added to the forms of that verb on the pattern of ⟨pīnxī⟩ beside ⟨pictum⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ Cognate with [[sa|मेहति|tr=mehati]], [[grc|ὀμείχω|tr=omeíkhō]], [[lt|mỹžti]], [[lv|mìzt]] and [[ang|mīgan]], all meaning “to urinate”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The supine ''mīnctum'' is read only in a fragment of the orator Gaius Titius,^(TLL) quoted by Macrobius: ''ipsus it mīnctum'', “he goes off to make water himself”.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The OLD treats it under ''meiō'' and notes that the perfect is regularly ''mīxī'' in inscriptions but ''mīnxī'' in literature.^(OLD 2012) Forms of the present stem are transmitted in earlier authors, such as Celsus' passive ''ūrīna mingitur'', but the TLL finds them securely attested only from Vopiscus on, and the OLD calls the present doubtful before the 4th century AD.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Horace, Martial and Juvenal also have the verb,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) and grammarians such as Eutyches give ''mingō'' as another name for ''meiō''.^(TLL)

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+ Later authors use the present freely: Ammianus writes of urinating standing up, and Vegetius uses it in veterinary medicine.^(Georges 1913) Church Latin kept the meaning “urinate”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses the supine ''mictum''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus has the passive ''ūrīna mingitur'', in a form the TLL doubts.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial has the perfect ''minxistī''.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus writes of urinating standing up.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To [[m|en|urinate]], make water.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To pass (urine).^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[meiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}