abdo Latin · revision 6625

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *dʰeh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈab.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈab.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''abdō''' (present infinitive abdere, perfect active abdidī, supine abditum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ab-|t=away]] and a verb *-dō “to put”, from [[ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-|t=to put, place]], as in [[sa|दधाति|tr=dádhāti]] and [[grc|τίθημι|tr=títhēmi]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citations are from Plautus, as his slaves who hid from their master's sight.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to put away out of sight, hide, conceal, as Caesar's wagons sent into the thickest woods, to place in ambush, and reflexively to hide oneself, of the sun to set, and figuratively to bury oneself in an activity, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant to cover or wrap, to plunge a weapon into a body, as in Virgil, and to banish to a remote place.^(OLD 2012) It also meant to keep knowledge secret, disguise, and suppress a feeling, as in Livy.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein contrasts [[cēlō]], to keep something secret, with [[occulō]], to hide a material thing.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to hide, conceal.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it reflexively of going into hiding.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of hiding wagons.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|hide]], conceal, put out of sight.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(reflexive)'' To hide oneself; to immerse oneself (in).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To cover; to plunge (a weapon).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To remove, [[m|en|banish]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To keep secret; to suppress (a feeling).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[abditīvus]]

+ * [[abditē]]

+ * [[abditus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[condō]]

+ * [[addō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}