doto Latin · revision 7028

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈdoː.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈdɔː.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dōtō''' (present infinitive dōtāre, perfect active dōtāvī, supine dōtātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[dōs]] “dowry” with the verb suffix [[-ō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis and Short call the finite verb rare and perhaps not ante-Augustan, and cite Virgil and Suetonius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to provide with a dowry, endow, and with an ablative to dower with something, as Apuleius.^(OLD 2012) Suetonius says Vespasian married off his daughter and dowered her splendidly, and Virgil's Juno tells Lavinia she will be dowered with Trojan and Rutulian blood.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) The glosses equate it with the Greek for giving a dowry.^(TLL)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to endow.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese ''dotare'', ''dotar'', and French ''douer''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|dowry]] came about 1400 through Anglo-French from Medieval Latin ''dōtārium'', from ''dōtāre''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil has ''dōtābere''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of dowering a daughter.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it with an ablative.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To provide with a [[m|en|dowry]], [[m|en|endow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[indōtātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dōs]]

+ * [[dōtālis]]

+ * [[en|dowry]]

+ * [[en|dower]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Dōtō'', genitive ''Dōtūs'', is also the name of a sea-nymph in Virgil.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}