consegnare Italian · revision 39073

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=late 13th century, Bonvesin da la Riva|origins=la signum}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /kon.seɲˈɲa.re/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''consegnare''' (first-person singular present conségno, first-person singular past historic consegnài, past participle consegnàto, auxiliary avére)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old Italian also had the form [[m|roa-oit|consignare]], closer to the Latin.^(GDLI)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|cōnsignō|t=to seal; to put in writing; to assign]], a learned word reshaped after the native verb [[segnare]].^(DELI 1999)^(Wiktionary)^(GDLI)^(DEI|1067) The Latin verb is made of [[m|la|con-]] and [[m|la|signō|t=to mark, seal]], which comes from [[m|la|signum|t=mark, sign]].^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto 1968) De Vaan connects the noun with [[m|la|secō|t=to cut]], from a form [[ine-pro|*sek-no-|t=something cut]]: a sign was first something carved.^(de Vaan 2008) Nocentini explains the Italian ⟨e⟩, against the ⟨i⟩ of [[fr|consigner]] and [[es|consignar]], as taken over from [[segno]].^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLIO's first record is in the Milanese poems of Bonvesin da la Riva (late 13th century).^(TLIO) DELI's first date is 1397, in a letter of the Datini archive about two bales and three barrels of tin to be delivered in Majorca, with the sense “to give into someone's keeping or possession”.^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Nocentini traces the senses from the Latin “to put a seal on” to the legal “to record, to deposit (a sum)”, and in the army to “to pass on a written order”, from which comes the modern sense “to keep in barracks”.^(Nocentini 2010) In Old Italian the verb meant to hand over or entrust something, to give it as a pledge, to bring it to its destination, to commend one's soul to God, and in military use to review soldiers, arms and horses and enter them in the rolls; used reflexively it meant to report to the authorities.^(TLIO) The GDLI compares the military senses with [[fr|consigner]], recorded from the 14th century and in the specific sense from the 18th.^(GDLI)

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+ The military sense “to punish with confinement to barracks” is first recorded in Foscolo in 1805.^(DELI 1999) The noun [[consegna]], formed from the verb without a suffix, followed the same path: “delivery” from the 14th–16th centuries, “orders for a sentry” in 1824 and “confinement to barracks” in 1930.^(DELI 1999) Literary phrases such as ''consegnare alla memoria'' mean to hand down to posterity.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Late 13th century – Bonvesin da la Riva uses the verb in Milanese.^(TLIO)

+ * 1397 – ''Consegnare'' “to deliver” appears in the Datini archive.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)

+ * 1805 – Foscolo uses it for confining soldiers to barracks.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1824 – The noun ''consegna'' is recorded for a sentry's orders.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1930 – ''Consegna'' is recorded for the punishment of confinement to barracks.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|deliver]] or [[m|en|hand over]] something to the person it is meant for: ''Il corriere ha consegnato il pacco stamattina.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # To hand in a finished piece of work: ''Gli studenti devono consegnare la relazione entro venerdì.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

+ # To [[m|en|entrust]] someone or something to another's keeping, for a time or for good; also to hand a wanted person over to the authorities: ''Ho consegnato le chiavi al vicino.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(literary)'' ''Consegnare alla memoria'', ''alla posterità'': to hand down to later generations.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(military)'' To punish a soldier with confinement to barracks, or to keep troops in barracks in readiness.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(reflexive)'' ''Consegnarsi'': to give oneself up, to [[m|en|surrender]]: ''Il fuggiasco si è consegnato ai carabinieri.''^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[consegna]]

+ * [[consegnatario]]

+ * [[riconsegnare]]

+ * [[riconsegna]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[segnare]]

+ * [[segno]]

+ * [[assegnare]]

+ * [[la|cōnsignō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}