comprecor Latin · revision 36892

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''comprecor''' (present infinitive comprecārī); first conjugation, deponent, no perfect or supine stems^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''conprecor''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|precor|t2=to pray]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary traces [[m|la|precor]] to [[ine-pro|*preḱ-|t=to ask]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it in poets from Plautus on;^(TLL) in the ''Amphitruo'' a woman is told she should have prayed to Jupiter with incense or salted meal, and in the ''Miles gloriosus'' someone is sent inside to pray.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Terence uses it with the gods as object,^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) and Catullus uses it of calling on the faith of the gods.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Lewis and Short call it mostly early and rare, and absent from Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Among prose writers it appears from Seneca on:^(TLL) in the ''Medea'' the crowd of the silent dead and the gods of the underworld are invoked, and in a letter he speaks of people who pray for death for themselves.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Apuleius uses it of invoking all the gods.^(Georges 1913) Glossaries explain it as “they wish”.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of praying to Jupiter.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of praying to the gods.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it of invoking the gods.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it in the ''Medea'' and the letters.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|pray]] to, [[m|en|invoke]], supplicate (the gods).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To pray for something; to pray that.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(with dative or absolute)'' To pray, say one's prayers.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[comprecātiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[precor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}