converro Latin · revision 36763

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔnˈwɛr.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [koɱˈvɛr.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''converrō''' (present infinitive converrere, perfect active converrī, supine conversum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus writes the older ''convorrō'', with the perfect ''convorrī''.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|verrō|t2=to sweep]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan traces [[m|la|verrō]] to [[itc-pro|*wors-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*urs-e/o-|t=to wipe]], comparing [[hit|warš-i|t=to reap, harvest, wipe]].^(de Vaan 2008) The spelling ⟨convorr-⟩ in Plautus is the older one: according to de Vaan, /wo-/ became /we-/ before /s/, /t/ and /r/ plus a consonant around 200 BC.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus on.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL) In the ''Stichus'' the line ''capiam scopas atque hoc convorram lubens'' (“I'll take the brooms and gladly sweep this up”) has it in the sense “sweep together”.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cato uses it of sweeping clean: the farmhouse is to be kept swept and tidy.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Columella has it of the herdsman who sweeps out the stable every day,^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) and Curtius of winds that sweep up whatever sand lies on the plains.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010) Plautus already uses it as a joke for a thrashing, in the ''Rudens'': ''convorret iam hic me totum cum pulvisculo'' (“he'll sweep me out, dust and all”).^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ Figuratively it meant to scrape together: Cicero, in the ''De officiis'', imagines a man who could sweep up everyone's inheritances with a snap of his fingers.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Later writers used it more freely: Arnobius of worshippers who sweep the very thresholds of the temples with their kisses,^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Ammianus Marcellinus of storms that swept through Thrace.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of sweeping up, and jokingly of a beating.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of sweeping the farmhouse clean.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of scraping together inheritances.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of sweeping out the stable.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 297–310 AD – Arnobius uses it of sweeping temple thresholds with kisses.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus Marcellinus uses it of storms sweeping through Thrace.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|sweep]] together, sweep up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To sweep clean.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To [[m|en|scrape]] together, amass.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(humorous)'' To give a thorough [[m|en|thrashing]] to.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[scōpa]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Conte warns against confusing its forms with those of [[converto|alt=convertō]] “turn round”,^(Conte 2010) and the manuscripts do confuse them: at Cicero, ''De officiis'' 3.78, some read ''convertere'',^(Lewis & Short 1879) and in Gellius the transmitted text has ''convertebant''.^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}