meio Latin · revision 36996

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=Gaius Titius|origins=ine-pro *h₃meiǵʰ-(i)e-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈmeː.joː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈmɛː.jo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''mēiō''' (present infinitive mēiere, perfect active mīxī or mēiī, supine mīctum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The perfect is regularly ''mīxī'' in inscriptions and ''mīnxī'' in literary texts, and the supine is ''mictum'' or ''minctum''.^(OLD 2012)

+ A first-conjugation ''meiāre'' appears in late veterinary writers and in an inscription.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*meiɣjō]],^(Wiktionary) [[inh|ine-pro|*h₃meiǵʰ-(i)e-|t=to urinate]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) The nasal present [[mingō]], which later became the usual form, goes back to [[m|ine-pro|*h₃mi-n-ǵʰ-]];^(de Vaan 2008) Walde and Hofmann took it for a secondary formation on the perfect ⟨mīnxī⟩, while the LIV regards it as old.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|मेहति|tr=mehati]],^(Wiktionary) [[grc|ὀμείχω|tr=omeíkhō]], [[lt|mỹžti]], [[sh|mìžati]] and [[ang|mīgan]], all meaning “to urinate”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan's first attestation is the orator Gaius Titius;^(de Vaan 2008) in verse it appears in Catullus (97.8).^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Persius has ''sacer est locus, extra meiite'', “this is a sacred place: piss outside”,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) and a tomb inscription asks the passer-by not to (''hospes, ad hunc tumulum ne meias'').^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Juvenal uses it of an insult to a statue,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) and Martial jokingly of a cracked chamber pot.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Catullus and Horace also use it obscenely for ejaculation.^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913) Petronius has the proverb ''caldum meiere et frigidum potare'', “to piss hot and drink cold”, of spending more than one takes in.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ The present [[mingō]] is doubtfully attested before the 4th century AD;^(OLD 2012) Conte describes it as a late formation from the perfect.^(Conte 2010) Late veterinary writers such as Pelagonius also inflect the verb in the first conjugation.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it, once with a double sense.^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 34–62 AD – Persius uses it of a sacred place.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses the proverb ''caldum meiere et frigidum potare''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial uses it of a chamber pot.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 360 AD – Pelagonius inflects it in the first conjugation.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|urinate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(of a vessel)'' To [[m|en|leak]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(obscene)'' To [[m|en|ejaculate]].^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[immēiō]]

+ * [[permēiō]]

+ * [[commēiō]]

+ * [[circummingō]]

+ * [[commingō]]

+ * [[permingō]]

+ * [[micturiō]]

+ * [[mictus]]

+ * [[mīnctiō]]

+ * [[mictorius]]

+ * [[mictualis]]

+ * [[minctura]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}