comissor Latin · revision 36537

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc κωμάζω}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [koːˈmɪs.sɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [koˈmis.sor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōmissor''' (present infinitive cōmissārī, perfect active cōmissātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ The spelling ''cōmisor'' is as old in the manuscripts as ''cōmissor'';^(Georges 1913)^(OLD 2012) later writers often have ''comessor''.^(Georges 1913)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|κωμάζω|tr=kōmázō|t=to revel, make merry]],^(Wiktionary)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) from [[m|grc|κῶμος|tr=kômos|t=revel]].^(Wiktionary) The OLD only compares the Greek verb.^(OLD 2012)

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+ The spellings with ⟨comes-⟩, ⟨comis-⟩ and ⟨commess-⟩ came from false derivations, as if the verb were formed from [[m|la|comedō|t=to eat up]], [[m|la|cōmis|t=friendly]] or [[m|la|mēnsa|t=table]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) in the ''Mostellaria'', where a character sets off to go revelling at a friend's house.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It described young people who went about after a banquet with music and dancing and ended at the house of one of their companions to drink again.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Plautus, Terence and Livy use it with ''ad'' or ''in domum'' of going to someone's house to carouse,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) and Horace has revelling in the house of Paulus.^(Georges 1913) Livy also describes men following a chariot like revellers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ Curtius uses it of men returning drunk and revelling from the Ocean, and Quintilian, Suetonius and Petronius have it too.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In late writers and the Vulgate the spelling ''comessor'' became common, under the influence of the verb for eating.^(Georges 1913)^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of going to revel at a friend's house.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of letting someone in to revel.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of men following a chariot like revellers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it in his fourth book of odes.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Curtius uses it of men returning drunk from the Ocean.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

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

+ # To go in a festive procession, especially to a friend's house to drink again after a banquet.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cōmissābundus]]

+ * [[cōmissātiō]]

+ * [[cōmissātor]]

+ * [[cōmissāliter]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}