negito Latin · revision 36889

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈnɛ.ɡɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈnɛː.d͡ʒi.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''negitō''' (present infinitive negitāre, perfect active negitāvī, supine negitātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|negō|-itō|t1=to deny, refuse]], a frequentative verb.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(TLL) The TLL describes its force as intensive: to deny insistently.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Plautus,^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) in the ''Mercator'' with an accusative and infinitive: ''negitāre adeō mē nātum suom'', “kept denying that I was his son”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to deny again and again, with an accusative and infinitive or absolutely: in the ''Bacchides'' a speaker can barely keep saying no,^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lucretius uses it with an infinitive clause,^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Cicero of someone who had denied for many years that a criterion of truth and falsehood existed,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) and Horace's Sabine shakes his head and keeps saying no, ''renuit negitatque Sabellus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Sallust uses it in the sense “to refuse repeatedly”: the king at first keeps refusing and only gives way after being pressed many times.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Lewis and Short call it very rare.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it is glossed “to deny frequently”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of persistent denial.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it with an accusative and infinitive.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust uses it of refusing repeatedly.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace pairs it with [[renuo|alt=renuit]], “shakes his head”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|deny]] repeatedly or persistently.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To [[m|en|refuse]] repeatedly.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}