recingo Latin · revision 36887

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=la cingō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈkɪŋ.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈt͡ʃiŋ.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''recingō''' (present infinitive recingere, perfect active recinxī, supine recinctum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|cingō|t2=to gird]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan calls the etymology of the simple verb uncertain; he reconstructs [[itc-pro|*keng-]] with a question mark.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Virgil, in the phrase ''in veste recinctā'', “in an ungirt robe”, in the fourth book of the ''Aeneid''.^(Conte 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short call it a poetic word of the Augustan period, frequent in Ovid.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It meant to untie or unbelt a garment, and in the passive, used as a middle, to take off a garment by untying it.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Ovid uses it of untying the girdle, ''zōnam'', and of tunics,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) and in the ''Metamorphoses'' of a snake that had been worn as a girdle and is taken off, ''sūmptum recingitur anguem''.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Statius uses the passive with an accusative of laying the sword aside, ''ferrum recingī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ The opposite sense, to gird again, appears in Ammianus Marcellinus, of being girded with arms again for military service.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil speaks of an ungirt robe.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of untying a girdle and of taking off a garment.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius uses it of laying aside a sword.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus Marcellinus uses it in the sense “to gird again” for service.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|untie]] or unbelt (a garment); to unfasten (a [[m|en|girdle]]).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(passive, used as middle)'' To take off a garment by untying it; to lay aside (a belt, a sword).^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' To [[m|en|gird]] again (with arms).^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}