compleo Latin · revision 4440

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *pleh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkɔm.pɫe.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkɔm.ple.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''compleō''' (present infinitive complēre, perfect active complēvī, supine complētum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|pleō|t2=to fill]],^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) a verb found only in compounds, as the grammarian Pompeius notes that nobody can say ''pleō''.^(TLL) It is related to [[plenus|alt=plēnus]] and [[grc|πίμπλημι|tr=pímplēmi|t=to fill]].^(Georges 1913) Wiktionary traces ''pleō'' to [[itc-pro|*plēō]], from [[ine-pro|*pleh₁-|t=to fill]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, in the Miles Gloriosus, has a two-pound pot filled ten times over.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to fill a container or space, to fill with food or drink, with sound, as Cicero speaks of filling the forum with lamentation, and with emotions, as Ennius has the sky filled with terrors.^(OLD 2012) Of crowds it meant to throng a place, and in war to man ships or fill up a formation.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It also meant to make up a number or length, to complete an action, to fulfil a promise and to satisfy an appetite.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ In medieval Latin it was also used of a male fertilizing a female.^(MLW) Its descendants include [[es|cumplir]], [[pt|cumprir]], [[it|compiere]] and [[ro|cumpli]].^(Wiktionary) [[en|complete]] is from its participle [[completus|alt=complētus]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of filling a pot.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius uses it of filling with terror.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of manning a rampart.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To fill, fill up.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To fill with food or drink; to sate.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To fill with sound or emotion.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To throng, occupy; to man with troops.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To make up a number; to [[m|en|complete]], finish.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|fulfil]] a promise; to satisfy.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[complēmentum]]

+ * [[complētiō]]

+ * [[complētīvus]]

+ * [[completor]]

+ * [[complētōrium]]

+ * [[incomplētus]]

+ * [[complētus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dēpleō]]

+ * [[expleō]]

+ * [[impleō]]

+ * [[oppleō]]

+ * [[repleō]]

+ * [[suppleō]]

+ * [[plenus|alt=plēnus]]

+ * [[en|complete]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}