renumero Latin · revision 36753

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''renumerō''' (present infinitive renumerāre, perfect active renumerāvī, supine renumerātum); first conjugation^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|numerō|t2=to count]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan derives [[m|la|numerō]] from [[m|la|numerus|t=number]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*nomeso-]] and, through a thematized s-stem, to [[ine-pro|*nem-e/os-|t=apportioning, sacrifice]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Plautus,^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) in the sense “pay back”: in the ''Bacchides'' a girl would gladly pay back the soldier if she had the gold (''si haec habeat aurum, quod illi militi renumeret'').^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Terence's ''Hecyra'' the dowry is to be paid back (''renumeret dotem huc''),^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) and the commentator Donatus remarks that the verb is used properly there because a dowry is money.^(TLL) Apuleius uses it of giving back money received as a dowry,^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) and later writers of paying back a price or a debt to a creditor.^(TLL) A decree of the town council of Gabii of AD 140 applies it to a sum to be paid out to the people of Tusculum.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)

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+ Lewis & Short take “count over” as the literal sense,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Caesar uses it of reporting a count: his men reported to him about 30,000 arrows shot into a fort (''milia sagittarum circiter XXX in castellum coniecta Caesari renumeraverunt'').^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of paying back gold.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of paying back a dowry.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of reporting a count of arrows.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * AD 140 – A decree of the council of Gabii uses it of a sum to be paid out.^(TLL)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of repaying money.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|pay back]], [[m|en|repay]] (what is owed).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To pay out (a sum due to others).^(TLL)

+ # To count up; to report a [[m|en|count]] of.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[renumerātiō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Manuscripts often confuse it with [[remunero|alt=remunerō]] “reward”.^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}