recogito Latin · revision 36621

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈkoː.ɡɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈkɔː.d͡ʒi.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''recōgitō''' (present infinitive recōgitāre, perfect active recōgitāvī, supine recōgitātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|cōgitō|t2=to think]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan lists the simple verb among the derivatives of [[m|la|agō|t=to drive, do]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus is its first author:^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) the prologue of his ''Captīvī'' exclaims ''homunculī quantī sunt, quom recōgitō!'', “what little men we are, when I think it over!”^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to think something over or reflect, with or without ''sēcum'' and often with an indirect question, as in Columella.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Cicero has it with ''dē'' and the ablative, to think again about something.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) The TLL finds it in verse only in Plautus and the ''Epigrammata Bobiensia'', in prose at single places in Cicero, Seneca and others, and much more often from the Old Latin Bible and Tertullian on.^(TLL) The Vulgate uses it of thinking in one's heart and of God taking thought of people.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Glossaries render it with [[grc|ἐπιλογίζομαι|tr=epilogízomai]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it in the prologue of the ''Captīvī''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it with ''dē'', to think again about something.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it with an indirect question.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of thinking over what he has said.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it often.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it of God thinking of people.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|reflect]], think over, [[m|en|consider]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To reflect on.^(Conte 2010)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[recōgitātiō]]

+ * [[recōgitātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cōgitātiō]]

+ * [[agō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}