conformo Latin · revision 36821

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=second half of the 2nd century BC, Afranius|origins=la fōrma}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kõːˈfoːr.moː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [koɱˈfɔr.mo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnfōrmō''' (present infinitive cōnfōrmāre, perfect active cōnfōrmāvī, supine cōnfōrmātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|fōrmō|t1=with, together|t2=to form, shape]],^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) and [[m|la|fōrmō]] is from [[m|la|fōrma|t=form, shape]].^(Wiktionary) The origin of that noun is unclear; de Vaan thinks it and [[grc|μορφή|tr=morphḗ|t=form, shape]] may have been borrowed from a third language.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Afranius on,^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) in a comedy where someone orders that a girl be looked after and properly decked out (''puellam cūrent, cōnfōrment probē'').^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short note that Cicero uses it several times and that it is otherwise very rare in the classical period.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero has it of nature shaping people for greater things, of speech shaped by the arrangement of words, and of training character;^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) in a letter he says he adapts himself to the will of a man from whom he cannot honourably dissent (''ipse mē cōnfōrmō ad eius voluntātem'').^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Vitruvius describes the sky as shaped by the stars and their courses,^(OLD 2012) and Gellius says a she-bear shapes its cub by licking it.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Christian writers used it for being shaped after a model: the Vulgate has ''nōlīte cōnfōrmārī huic saeculō'', “do not be conformed to this world” (Romans 12:2), and Ambrose and Augustine write of conforming oneself to Christ or to God.^(TLL) Ecclesiastical Latin also used it for educating.^(Stelten 1995) English took it over in the 14th century as ''conform'', partly through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * second half of the 2nd century BC – Afranius uses it of dressing up a girl.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of shaping speech and character and of adapting oneself.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of the sky shaped by the stars.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of a she-bear licking its cub into shape.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses the passive of being conformed to the world.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-14th century – English borrows it as ''conform''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|shape]], [[m|en|fashion]], mould; to outline or sketch (a design, a mental picture).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To deck out, dress up.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To give shape to ideas or speech.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To make to correspond, bring into [[m|en|harmony]];^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) ''(reflexive)'' to adapt oneself.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To [[m|en|train]], educate.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' ''(passive)'' To be [[m|en|conform|alt=conformed]] (to the world, to Christ).^(TLL)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[conformalis]]

+ * [[cōnfōrmātiō]]

+ * [[conformator]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fōrma]]

+ * [[fōrmō]]

+ * [[en|conform]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Manuscripts often confuse it with [[cōnfirmō]].^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}