nodo Latin · revision 36767

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=la nōdus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈnoː.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈnɔː.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nōdō''' (present infinitive nōdāre, perfect active nōdāvī, supine nōdātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|nōdus|-ō|t1=knot]], a verb formed from the noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Cato's treatise on farming,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) where the vines are to be well furnished with joints (''vītēs bene nōdentur'').^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Besides the joints of plants (in Pliny the Elder, giant fennel with jointed stalks, and cornel wood cut with notches),^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) it meant to tie in a knot: Virgil has hair tied up into gold (''crīnēs nōdantur in aurum''), and Pliny nets knotted with amber.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Poets extended it to binding and fettering, as in Ovid's lover with his neck tied in a noose,^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) and Statius used it of wrestlers locked together and of a winding stream.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Ambrose still uses it of animals bound with bands.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of vines furnished with joints.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of hair tied into a knot.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of a neck tied in a noose.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder writes of nets knotted with amber.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 340–397 AD – Ambrose uses it.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To tie in a [[m|en|knot]] or knots.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(poetic)'' To bind, [[m|en|fetter]]; to twist like a knot.^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(passive)'' To be furnished with joints or [[m|en|node|alt=nodes]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adnōdō]]

+ * [[ēnōdō]]

+ * [[innōdō]]

+ * [[nōdāmen]]

+ * [[nōdātiō]]

+ * [[renōdō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nōdus]]

+ * [[nōdōsus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}