domito Latin · revision 4075

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Virgil|origins=la domō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈdɔ.mɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈdɔː.mi.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''domitō''' (present infinitive domitāre, perfect active domitāvī, supine domitātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|domō|-tō|t1=to tame]], a frequentative.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Virgil, in the Georgics, uses it of taming oxen.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Köbler dates Virgil 70–19 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to tame and break in animals, oxen and a team of horses in Virgil, lions in the Ciris, every kind of four-footed beast in Manilius, and elephants in Curtius and Pliny.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL thinks it was first a word of the hexameter poets that passed into prose.^(TLL) Lewis & Short call it very rare.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Silius Italicus uses it of subduing peoples in war and of taming passions, and Pliny the Younger of the winds.^(Georges 1913)

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+ Medieval Latin used it of animals and men, of taming and conquering.^(MLW) It is the source of [[fr|dompter]], and through Old French ''danter'' of English ''daunt'', recorded about 1300 as “to subdue, conquer”.^(TLL)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of oxen and horses.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Manilius uses it of all kinds of animals.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius Italicus uses it of subduing peoples.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – English ''daunt'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|tame]], break in (animals).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To subdue, conquer.^(Georges 1913)^(MLW)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[edomito]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[domo]]

+ * [[en|daunt]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}