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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *deh₃-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈdoːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈdɔs]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dōs''' ''f'' (genitive dōtis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*dōt-|t=endowment]], [[inh|ine-pro|*dē/ōh₃-t-|t=gift]], from the root [[ine-pro|*deh₃-|t=to give]] of [[dō]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[grc|δόσις|tr=dósis|t=giving, gift]] and [[grc|δώς|tr=dṓs|t=gift]].^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Plautus, whose character wants to marry a girl without a dowry.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant the property a bride brought to her husband, a dowry, as Plautus' ''virgō dōte cassa'' “a girl without a dowry”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) By extension it meant any endowment, a quality or talent adorning mind or body, as Ovid's advice to please by whatever gift one has, and a virtue or advantage of a thing.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Medieval Latin it meant a bridegroom's gift to the bride, a dower, and an endowment of a church or monastery.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian and Spanish ''dote'' and French ''dot''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|dowry]] and [[en|dower]] come from the verb ''dōtāre'' through Old French ''doaire''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of personal gifts.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1400 – English ''dowry'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|dowry]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # An [[m|en|endowment]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A gift, [[m|en|talent]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # An advantage, virtue (of a thing).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|dower]]; an endowment of a church.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dōtālis]]

+ * [[dōtō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dō]]

+ * [[en|dowry]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}