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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [frɛˈkʷɛn.toː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [freˈkʷɛn.to]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''frequentō''' (present infinitive frequentāre, perfect active frequentāvī, supine frequentātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[frequēns]] “crowded, frequent” with the verb suffix [[-ō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Medieval manuscripts spell it ⟨frae-⟩.^(MLW)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Cicero, of populating and crowding.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to fill with people, populate, crowd a place, of a crowd to throng a place or a person, as in Sallust, and to multiply.^(OLD 2012) It meant to use often, to repeat, as in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', and to visit often, frequent a place or a person, as Cicero's ''alicuius domum frequentāre''.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Ovid it meant to celebrate a festival, attend a meeting, in Tacitus to appear on the stage, and in Virgil to inhabit.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to frequent, have recourse to, celebrate, visit often.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''frequentare'' and Spanish ''frecuentar'', and French ''fréquenter''.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of repeating.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of crowding and of frequenting.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of celebrating festivals.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To populate; to crowd.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To throng.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To multiply.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To use often; to repeat.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|frequent]], visit often.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To celebrate; to attend; to inhabit.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[confrequentō]]
+ * [[frequentāmentum]]
+ * [[frequentātiō]]
+ * [[frequentātīuus]]
+ * [[frequentator]]
+ * [[infrequentatus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[frequēns]]
+ * [[frequentia]]
+ * [[en|frequent]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}