invenio Latin · revision 6949

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɪnˈwɛ.ni.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [iɱˈvɛː.ni.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inveniō''' (present infinitive invenīre, perfect active invēnī, supine inventum); fourth conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[in-]] “upon” and [[veniō]] “to come”, so “to come upon”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pomponius has an old future ⟨invenībit⟩ for ⟨inveniet⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of finding a person and of devising.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to come upon, meet, find a person or thing, as in Plautus, and to find in some condition, as Cicero's young men “found dead”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant to locate something lost, to discover by searching, to find in a book, and to find out a fact.^(OLD 2012) It meant to devise, contrive, and in rhetoric to devise arguments, and to originate, invent.^(OLD 2012) It also meant to acquire, get for oneself, and to meet with.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein explains that ''invenīre'' is the general word for finding, while ''reperīre'' and ''dēprehendere'' suppose that the thing was hidden and sought with effort.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to find, discover, obtain, come upon, invent.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''invenire'', and [[en|invent]] came about 1500 from its participle ''inventus'', first meaning “to find, discover”.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 235–200 BC – Naevius uses it of discovering someone to be.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of finding by search and of devising arguments.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1500 – English ''invent'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To come upon, meet, find.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To find, locate something lost; to discover by searching.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To find out, learn; to discover to be.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To devise, contrive, ''(rhetoric)'' to devise arguments.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To originate, [[m|en|invent]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To acquire, get; to meet with.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adinveniō]]

+ * [[inventārium]]

+ * [[inventiō]]

+ * [[inventor]]

+ * [[inventum]]

+ * [[inuentus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[adveniō]]

+ * [[anteveniō]]

+ * [[circumveniō]]

+ * [[contrāveniō]]

+ * [[conveniō]]

+ * [[dēveniō]]

+ * [[ēveniō]]

+ * [[interveniō]]

+ * [[inventiuncula]]

+ * [[inventrīx]]

+ * [[veniō]]

+ * [[reperiō]]

+ * [[en|invent]]

+ * [[en|inventory]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}