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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=la puto}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkɔm.pʊ.toː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkɔm.pu.to]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''computō''' (present infinitive computāre, perfect active computāvī, supine computātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|com-|puto|alt2=putō|t2=to reckon]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The simple verb first meant “to prune, clean”, and then “to settle accounts, reckon”.^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ It is found in Plautus (c. 250–184 BC), whose slave works out a plan by counting on the fingers of his right hand.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to calculate, count up or reckon, as Cicero's “he had counted the money” and Pliny's measurements of Gaul.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant to take into account, as Columella's rainy days and holidays on which no ploughing is done, and in law to include in a reckoning.^(OLD 2012)
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+ Lewis and Short note that it is mostly post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It survives as Italian ''contare'', French ''compter'' and ''conter'' and Spanish and Portuguese ''contar'', and through Old French it gave English ''count'' in the late 14th century and ''compute'' in the 1630s.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of counting on the fingers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of counting money.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of counting days.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''count'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ * 1630s – English ''compute'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To [[m|en|calculate]], count up, reckon.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To take into account, count.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(law)'' To include in a reckoning.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(law)'' To work out.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[computābilis]]
+ * [[computātiō]]
+ * [[computātor]]
+ * [[computus]]
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[puto]]
+ * [[en|count]]
+ * [[en|compute]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}