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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈpaː.re.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈpaː.re.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''pāreō''' (present infinitive pārēre, perfect active pāruī, supine pāritum); second conjugation, impersonal in the passive^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*pās-ē-]], perhaps from [[ine-pro|*peh₂-s-|t=to watch, see]], a stative “to be visible”.^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan connects it with [[pār]] “equal”, through “visible, obvious, seeming”, and with [[xcl|հայիմ|tr=hayim|t=to see]] and [[sq|pashë|t=I saw]].^(de Vaan 2008) The Thesaurus calls the origin uncertain, and the Oxford Latin Dictionary notes that the link between the senses “to obey” and “to be visible” is unclear.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Livius Andronicus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008) Plautus says “I'll obey your instructions”.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ In Classical Latin, with the dative, it was to submit or be subject to, to obey laws, commands or advice, to give way to circumstances or appetites, and to attend on a magistrate.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It was also to be visible, as Seneca's dim ridges of Ida, and in law to be clear or evident, impersonally ''pāret'' “it appears”, from Cicero on.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) Döderlein says it is obedience as a servant's duty, against [[oboediō]].^(Döderlein 1874)
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+ Its compound [[appāreō]] “to appear” gave English ''appear''.^(Etymonline) It survives as [[ro|părea]].^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of obeying.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses ''appārēre''.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses ''pāret'' “it appears”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To submit, be subject (to).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To [[m|en|obey]], comply with.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # To give way (to circumstances, feelings).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To attend (on a magistrate).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To be visible, [[m|en|appear]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(law)'' To be evident, ''pāret'', it is clear.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[appāreō]]
+ * [[compāreō]]
+ * [[dispāreō]]
+ * [[impārens]]
+ * [[parentia]]
+ * [[paritor]]
+ * [[trānspāreō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[pār]]
+ * [[pāscō]]
+ * [[oboediō]]
+ * [[en|appear]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}