relego Latin · revision 6240

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cato|origins=la lēgō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [rɛˈɫeː.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [reˈlɛː.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''relēgō''' (present infinitive relēgāre, perfect active relēgāvī, supine relēgātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[re-|t=back, away]] and [[lēgō]] “to send as a deputy, bequeath”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citation is Cato, of sending someone away to a remote place.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cato 234–149 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to banish a person to a given place or a given distance from Rome, the mild form of exile called ''relēgātiō'', as in Cicero, and more widely to send someone out of the way, as Cicero's father who removed his son from society to his country estates.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis and Short note that in Classical prose it usually has an odious sense.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also meant to transfer a matter or shift blame to another, as in Quintilian, and in wills to bequeath property back to its owner, as in Ulpian.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to banish, remove.^(Stelten 1995) [[en|relegate]] was borrowed in the 1590s, in the sense “to banish”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of sending away.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of banishment.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of shifting blame.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1590s – English ''relegate'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|banish]] (to a place or distance).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To send away, remove; to [[m|en|relegate]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To transfer (a matter); to shift (blame).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To bequeath back.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[relēgātiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[allegō]]

+ * [[colligō]]

+ * [[dīligō]]

+ * [[ēligō]]

+ * [[intellegō]]

+ * [[legō]]

+ * [[neglegō]]

+ * [[perlegō]]

+ * [[praelegō]]

+ * [[sēligō]]

+ * [[en|relegate]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A different verb ''relegō, relegere'', from [[re-]] and [[legō]], meant to gather up again, to go back over a path, and to read over again.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}