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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *(s)neh₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈeː.noː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɛː.no]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēnō''' (present infinitive ēnāre, perfect active ēnāvī, supine ēnātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Curtius has the full perfect form ''ēnāverant''; the shorter forms ''ēnāstī'', ''ēnārunt'' and ''ēnāsset'' are also found.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|nō|t2=to swim]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|nō]] to [[itc-pro|*(s)nāje/o-|t=to swim]] and [[ine-pro|*(s)neh₂-|t=to swim, float]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|snaïd|t=to swim]] and [[grc|νέω|tr=néō|t=to swim]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the TLL date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL) whose ''Rudens'' has ''in vadōst, iam facile ēnābit'', “he is in the shallows, now he will easily swim out”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to swim out or away, especially to escape by swimming.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it of a creature that swims out of a shell, Livy of ships so swallowed by the sea that no one swam to land, and Columella of a fish that never swam along the coasts of Gaul to the Spanish sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis and Short call it rare but classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Poets transferred it to flying: Lucretius uses it of the soul slipping out into the air, and Virgil of Daedalus flying to the cold north.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Cicero's ''Aratea'' uses it of Orion rising above the horizon.^(OLD 2012) Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus use it transitively, to sail across waters.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of swimming out of the shallows.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of the soul flying out into the air.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a creature swimming out of a shell and of Orion rising.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of Daedalus' flight.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius Italicus uses it of ships sailing out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To [[m|en|swim]] out or away; to escape by swimming, swim to safety.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(intransitive, poetic)'' To fly out; of a constellation, to rise above the [[m|en|horizon]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To swim or [[m|en|sail]] across (waters).^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}