inambulo Latin · revision 36576

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪˈnam.bʊ.ɫoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iˈnam.bu.lo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inambulō''' (present infinitive inambulāre, perfect active inambulāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|ambulō|t2=to walk]].^(OLD 2012)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) The simple verb [[m|la|ambulō]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*ala-|t=to wander]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂elh₂-|t=to wander]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Asinaria'', in the impersonal form ''inambulandumst'', “one must walk up and down”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero uses it often for walking up and down: a little in a portico, at home before dawn, on a shady river bank.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) In a letter to Cicero, Asinius Pollio writes of a man who, after lunch, paced about with his hands clasped behind his back.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Livy uses it of walking on the city walls.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ The Vulgate keeps it,^(Georges 1913)^(Stelten 1995) and medieval writers used it for going about or travelling, and with an object for walking through or across a place.^(MLW) Following 2 Corinthians, they spoke of God dwelling and walking among his saints.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses the impersonal ''inambulandumst''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of walking up and down in a portico.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of walking on the walls.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To walk up and down, [[m|en|pace]] to and fro.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' To go, [[m|en|travel]].^(MLW)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin, transitive)'' To walk through, [[m|en|traverse]].^(MLW)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[inambulātiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}