coaequo Latin · revision 36444

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=la aequus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [koˈae̯.kʷoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [koˈɛː.kʷo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''coaequō''' (present infinitive coaequāre, perfect active coaequāvī, supine coaequātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|aequō|t2=to make level, make equal]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan derives [[m|la|aequō]] from the adjective [[m|la|aequus|t=level, equal]], probably from a form ⟨*aikwos⟩, for which he finds no convincing etymology.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL dates it from Cato,^(TLL) who uses it in the ''De agricultura'' of levelling a threshing floor.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In its literal sense it is used of levelling ground: Sallust has ''montēs coaequāre'', to level mountains, Columella of levelling clods and furrows, and an inscription of levelling a small shrine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Figuratively it means to put on the same level or treat as equal: Cicero uses it of treating everything alike, and the second letter to Caesar attributed to Sallust of making everyone's favour equal.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) A public law uses it of adjusting measures by the official weights.^(OLD 2012) In Augustine it means to compare, and Stelten gives the Church Latin senses “make equal, fill up, rank with”.^(Conte 2010)^(Stelten 1995) Medieval writers used it of levelling a forest and of demolishing, of smoothing, and of dividing equally, and also in mathematics and music.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of levelling a threshing floor.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust uses it of levelling mountains.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of treating everything alike.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine uses it of comparing.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make [[m|en|level]], to level.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To regard or treat as equal, to [[m|en|equate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To adjust by weighing.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' To [[m|en|compare]].^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' To level to the ground, [[m|en|demolish]]; to divide equally; to make smooth.^(MLW)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}