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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Twelve Tables|origins=ine-pro *dʰeh₁-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈad.doː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈad.do]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''addō''' (present infinitive addere, perfect active addidī, supine additum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|ad-|-do|t2=to put]], with the same second element as [[abdo|alt=abdō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The element -dō continues [[ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-|t=to put, place]].^(Wiktionary)
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+ Cognate with [[sa|आदधाति|tr=ā́dadhāti|t=places, adds]].^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ It is found in the Laws of the Twelve Tables, which forbid adding gold to a burial, ''neve aurum addito''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It first meant to put something on or with something else, and to assign a person to someone, as Plautus' Argus, whom Juno gave Io as a guard.^(OLD 2012) It meant to add one quantity to another, as Lucilius' “add up the expenses and the debts”, to add a person to a group, and to say or write in addition.^(OLD 2012)
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+ It also meant to increase or intensify, as Plautus' “your words add to my weariness”, and to bestow or inflict something on someone.^(OLD 2012) In law it meant to add a clause to a statute.^(OLD 2012) English ''add'' was borrowed in the late 14th century, and its gerundive gave ''addendum'' in 1794.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 450 BC – The Twelve Tables use ''neve aurum addito''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of assigning a guard.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it of adding sums.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''add'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To attach, put on, place with.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To put in, insert.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To apply.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To assign (as a guard, guardian).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To confer, bestow, inflict.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To [[m|en|add]] (one quantity to another).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To add (to a group), include.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To increase, intensify, ''gradum addere'': to quicken one's pace.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To say or write in addition.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(law)'' To add as a proviso.^(OLD 2012)
+ 
+ ==Word family==
+ * [[additāmentum]]
+ * [[additicius]]
+ * [[additiō]]
+ * [[additiuus]]
+ * [[coaddō]]
+ * [[superaddō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[en|add]]
+ * [[en|addendum]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}