corrumpo Latin · revision 6284

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la rumpō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔrˈrʊm.poː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [korˈrum.po]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''corrumpō''' (present infinitive corrumpere, perfect active corrūpī, supine corruptum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[con-]] and [[rumpō]] “to break”: to break to pieces.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citations are from Plautus, of spoiling and destroying.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to spoil, damage, destroy, as Caesar's corn destroyed by river and fire, to harm the body, and to ruin a person or his hopes.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant to make food rot, as in Cato, to adulterate, as in Virgil, to change for the worse, to corrupt a word, and to falsify documents, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) It meant to deprave morally, as in Plautus, to bribe, suborn, as in Cicero, to seduce, as in Terence, and to tempt, beguile.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein says [[dēprāvō]] makes something worse but still amendable.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to corrupt, pervert, spoil, break to pieces.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''corrompere'' and Spanish ''corromper'', and Old French ''correcier'', French ''courroucer'', comes from a derivative.^(Wiktionary) [[en|corrupt]] came in the early 14th century from its participle ''corruptus'', and [[en|corruption]] from ''corruptiō''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of spoiling and depraving.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of bribery and falsifying documents.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 14th century – English ''corrupt'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To spoil, damage, [[m|en|destroy]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To ruin (a person, hopes).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To rot; to adulterate.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To change for the worse; to falsify.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|corrupt]], deprave.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|bribe]]; to seduce.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[corruptēla]]

+ * [[corruptibilis]]

+ * [[corruptiō]]

+ * [[corruptīvus]]

+ * [[corruptor]]

+ * [[corruptorius]]

+ * [[corruptrīx]]

+ * [[incorruptus]]

+ * [[praecorrumpō]]

+ * [[corruptus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rumpō]]

+ * [[en|corrupt]]

+ * [[en|corruption]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}