assuefacio Latin · revision 36721

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la assuēscō, la faciō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [as.su.eːˈfa.ki.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [as.su.eˈfaː.t͡ʃi.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''assuēfaciō''' (present infinitive assuēfacere, perfect active assuēfēcī, supine assuēfactum); third (-iō variant) conjugation, suppletive^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''adsuēfaciō'', with the unassimilated prefix.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|assuēscō|faciō|t1=to become accustomed|t2=to make, do]], “to make accustomed”, with the first part in the shortened form ⟨assuē-⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The earliest authors cited for it are Cicero and Caesar,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) who use it to accustom someone to something: Cicero writes of a household used to pure speech (''purō sermōne assuēfacta domus''), and Caesar of soldiers accustomed to a certain kind of fighting.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Cicero's time the thing someone is accustomed to stands in the ablative; later authors also use the dative, ''ad'' with the accusative, ''in'' with the ablative, or an infinitive.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) So Livy writes of accustoming the people to the punishment of the patricians (''ad supplicia patrum''), Tacitus of children brought up to licence rather than modesty, and Valerius Maximus of a man accustoming himself to the Persian language.^(Georges 1913) Cicero already has the infinitive, of making peoples used to obeying the rule of the Roman people.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ The Italian verb ''assuefare'' continues it.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a household used to pure speech.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of soldiers used to a kind of fighting.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it with ''ad'' and with the dative.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it with the dative.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make used to something, [[m|en|accustom]], [[m|en|habituate]], [[m|en|inure]] (with the ablative, dative, ''ad'' or an infinitive).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[assuēscō]]

+ * [[assuētus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}