adequito Latin · revision 36944

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 50 BC, Caesar|origins=la equus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [aˈdɛ.kʷɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [aˈdɛː.kʷi.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''adequitō''' (present infinitive adequitāre, perfect active adequitāvī, supine adequitātum); first conjugation, no passive^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|equitō|t1=to, towards|t2=to ride]],^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) and that verb comes from [[m|la|eques|t=horseman]], from [[m|la|equus|t=horse]].^(Wiktionary) The noun goes back to [[itc-pro|*ekwo-|t=horse]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁eḱ-u-|t=horse]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It first appears in Caesar,^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) who writes that the cavalry of Ariovistus came closer to the mound and rode up to the Roman troops (''ad nostrōs adequitāre'').^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Livy uses it often: with a dative, of riding up to the very gates or the rampart; of Numidians who rode up and then fled back; and without an object, of horsemen who rode up posing as deserters.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Curtius has it with ''ad'' and ''in'',^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) and Pliny the Elder, Frontinus, Tacitus and Florus with a dative.^(TLL) Suetonius uses it with ''circā'' and ''iuxtā'' for riding around or beside someone, as of riders who went ahead of a carriage or rode around it.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of the cavalry of Ariovistus riding up to the Romans.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of riding up to gates and ramparts.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Curtius uses it with ''ad'' and ''in''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of riding up to a camp.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of riding beside or around someone.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|ride]] up (to), ride towards (with ''ad'', ''in'' or a dative), [[m|en|gallop]] up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To ride around or beside (with ''circā'' or ''iuxtā'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[abequitō]]

+ * [[circumequitō]]

+ * [[equitō]]

+ * [[inequitō]]

+ * [[interequitō]]

+ * [[obequitō]]

+ * [[perequitō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}