eo Latin · revision 5465

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=Twelve Tables|origins=ine-pro *h₁ey-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''eō''' (present infinitive īre, perfect active iī or īvī, supine itum); irregular conjugation, impersonal in the passive^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*ei-|t=to go]], [[inh|ine-pro|*h₁ey-|t=to go]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Latin and Sabellic generalized the full grade *ei- in the present, and de Vaan regards the perfect [[m|la|īvī]] as a recent formation beside older [[m|la|iī]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[xum|etu|t=let him go]] and [[pgn|eite|t=go!]], and with [[sa|एति|tr=éti|t=goes]], [[grc|εἶμι|tr=eîmi|t=I will go]] and [[lt|eĩti|t=to go]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from the Twelve Tables and Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008) In Plautus one character says to another “just go home with me”.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates the Twelve Tables to about 450 BC and Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to go or make one's way, and was also said of things that are carried or move and of rumours that spread.^(OLD 2012) With a destination it meant to go to school, to prison or into exile, with ''ad'' to have recourse to a person, and with ''contrā'' to go against someone.^(OLD 2012) With the supine it meant to go to do something, and in a weakened sense to be about to do it.^(OLD 2012) The passive is only impersonal, as ''ītur'' “people go”.^(Wiktionary)

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+ Its compounds were many: [[exeō]], [[redeō]], [[trānseō]], [[pereō]], and [[en|exit]] was borrowed in the 1530s from ''exit'' “he goes out”, a stage direction.^(Etymonline) [[it|ire]], [[es|ir]] and [[pt|ir]] continue it, and French keeps it in the future stem ''ir-'' of ''aller''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 450 BC – it is used in the Twelve Tables.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – English ''exit'' is recorded as a stage direction.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|go]], [[m|en|proceed]], make one's way.^(OLD 2012)

+ # (of things, rumours) To be carried, go, spread.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To set out, depart.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To go (somewhere) to do something (to school, to prison, into exile).^(OLD 2012)

+ # (with ''ad'') To have recourse to, (with ''contrā'') to go against.^(OLD 2012)

+ # (with the supine) To go to do; to be about to.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To follow a line of conduct.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[abeō]]

+ * [[adeō]]

+ * [[ambiō]]

+ * [[anteeō]]

+ * [[circumeō]]

+ * [[coeō]]

+ * [[exeō]]

+ * [[ineō]]

+ * [[intereō]]

+ * [[introeō]]

+ * [[itiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[iter]]

+ * [[en|exit]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein distinguishes ''īre'', going as an act of will, said chiefly of persons, from [[meō|alt=meāre]], said rather of animals, ships and rivers moving on their course.^(Döderlein 1874) The adverb ''eō'' “to that place, for that reason” is a different word, an old case form of [[is]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}