noto Latin · revision 7442

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Varro|origins=la nōscō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''notō''' (present infinitive notāre, perfect active notāvī, supine notātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[nota]] “mark, sign” with the verb suffix [[-ō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Varro, of marking and stamping.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to mark, put a sign on, as Cicero's ''tabellam cērā notāre'', to brand, stamp, and in rhetoric to explain a word by its derivation.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant to mark a passage as important or faulty, and of the censors to put a mark of disgrace against a citizen's name, so to censure, stigmatize.^(OLD 2012) From Cicero it meant to stain or scar, to mark off, define, pick out, designate, and to indicate by a sign.^(OLD 2012) It meant to represent a word by an abbreviation, as in Quintilian, to denote by a name, to write, note down, mention, and to take note of, observe.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein explains that ''animadvertere'' is to observe mentally, ''notāre'' to make distinguishable by a mark.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to mark, denote, designate, signify.^(Stelten 1995) Through Old French ''noter'' it gave [[en|note]] about 1200, “to observe, mark carefully”.^(Etymonline) It survives in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese ''notare'', ''notar''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of marking.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the censor's mark and of noting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of abbreviation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1200 – English ''note'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To mark; to brand; to stamp.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To mark a passage.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of the censors, to mark with disgrace; to censure.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To stain, scar.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To mark off, define; to pick out; to designate.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To indicate; to denote; to abbreviate.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To write down, [[m|en|note]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To observe, notice.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adnotō]]

+ * [[circumnotō]]

+ * [[dēnotō]]

+ * [[ēnotō]]

+ * [[innoto]]

+ * [[notābilis]]

+ * [[notaculum]]

+ * [[notātiō]]

+ * [[nōtēscō]]

+ * [[praenotō]]

+ * [[subnotō]]

+ * [[annotō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cognitus]]

+ * [[ignōscō]]

+ * [[nōscō]]

+ * [[notōrius]]

+ * [[nota]]

+ * [[en|note]]

+ * [[en|notation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}