appendo Latin · revision 7329

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''appendō''' (present infinitive appendere, perfect active appendī, supine appēnsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ad-]] “to” and [[pendō]] “to hang, weigh”, and is also spelled ⟨adpendō⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of hanging something up.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to hang something on something, suspend, as in Plautus, and in Cicero to weigh out, pay by weight, as ''aurum appendere'' “to weigh out gold”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to balance, weigh out, weigh.^(Stelten 1995) The TLL notes French ''appendre'' as its descendant.^(TLL) Its derivative [[appendix]] gave [[en|appendix]] in the 1540s, and through Medieval Latin ''appendicium'' and Old French ''apentis'' [[en|penthouse]], and Old French ''apendre'' gave [[en|append]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of weighing out gold.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – English ''penthouse'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1540s – English ''appendix'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To hang, suspend.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To weigh out, pay by weight.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[appendix]]

+ * [[appensor]]

+ * [[appensus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pendō]]

+ * [[en|append]]

+ * [[en|appendix]]

+ * [[en|penthouse]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}