impleo Latin · revision 6945

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''impleō''' (present infinitive implēre, perfect active implēvī, supine implētum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[in-]] and [[pleō]] “to fill”, a verb found only in compounds.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Gaffiot 2016) The TLL compares [[grc|ἐμπίμπλημι|tr=empímplēmi|t=to fill up]] and [[plēnus]] “full”.^(TLL) It is also spelled ⟨inpleō⟩, and syncopated forms such as ⟨implērunt⟩ and ⟨implēssem⟩ are common in Virgil and Ovid.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of filling a container and of filling a place with people.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to fill a space or container, to fill with people or with noise, as in Livy, and to cover a surface or fill pages with writing, as Cicero's ''volūmina implēre''.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant to fill with food, fatten, sate the eyes and ears, make pregnant, as in Columella, and to fill with qualities, news or emotions.^(OLD 2012) It meant to fill a period of time, as Horace's expressions of age, to make up a measure, and to carry out completely, fulfil an agreement, wishes or prophecies, as in Virgil, Ovid and Livy.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to fill, accomplish, celebrate, satiate.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Romanian ''umple'', Catalan ''omplir'' and French ''emplir''.^(Wiktionary) Late Latin ''implēmentum'' “a filling up” gave [[en|implement]] in the mid-15th century, and [[en|implete]] “to fill” is recorded from 1862.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it of fattening.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of filling volumes.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of fulfilling wishes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To fill a space or container; to fill with people or noise.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To cover; to fill with writing.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To fill with food, sate; to fatten; to make [[m|en|pregnant]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To fill with qualities, news, emotions.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To fill out a theme.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To fill or complete a period of time.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To make up, amount to.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To carry out, fulfil; to satisfy wishes; of prophecies, to fulfil.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adimpleō]]

+ * [[implebilis]]

+ * [[implēmentum]]

+ * [[impletio]]

+ * [[implētus]]

+ * [[superimpleō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[compleō]]

+ * [[dēpleō]]

+ * [[expleō]]

+ * [[oppleō]]

+ * [[repleō]]

+ * [[suppleō]]

+ * [[pleō]]

+ * [[plēnus]]

+ * [[en|implement]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}