accolo Latin · revision 36647

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=la colō#1}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈak.kɔ.ɫoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈak.ko.lo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''accolō''' (present infinitive accolere, perfect active accoluī, supine accultum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''adcolō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|colō#1|t2=to inhabit, till]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) The simple verb goes back to [[itc-pro|*kʷele/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*kʷelh₁-e/o-|t=to go round]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in a tragedy of Naevius,^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) with an accusative: ''vōs quī accolitis Histrum fluvium'', “you who dwell by the river Hister”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to live near or beside a place or a person, usually with an accusative.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Plautus uses it without an object, addressing a neighbour Apollo who lives close to the house.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Accius and Cicero have it too,^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Virgil has ''dum domus Aenēae Capitōlī immōbile saxum accolet'', “as long as the house of Aeneas dwells by the immovable rock of the Capitol”.^(OLD 2012) In prose the TLL finds it often from Livy on, especially in the geographers:^(TLL) Livy speaks of the peoples living by the Etruscan sea and the Tiber, and Pliny the Elder uses the passive of a river lined with towns on both banks.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) The present participle ''accolentēs'' meant the people of the neighbourhood.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Of territory it meant to lie near: Tacitus speaks of the part of Gaul that borders the Rhine.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ Medieval writers used it in the sense “to inhabit”.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses it of those living by the Hister.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it without an object.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of the house of Aeneas by the Capitol.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of peoples living by the sea and the Tiber.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses ''accolentēs'' for the people of a region.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of territory bordering a river.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To live near or beside (a place or person), [[m|en|dwell]] by.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(absolute)'' To be a [[m|en|neighbour]];^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) ''accolentēs'', the people of the neighbourhood.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(of territory)'' To lie near, [[m|en|border]] on.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[accola]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}