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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [asˈsɪŋ.noː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [asˈsiɲ.ɲo]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''assignō''' (present infinitive assignāre, perfect active assignāvī, supine assignātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[ad-]] “to” and [[signō]] “to mark”, from [[signum]] “mark, sign”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) It is also spelled ⟨adsignō⟩, which several editors prefer.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Cicero, of allotting land to colonists.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to allot a portion, especially land to colonists, and to assign, allocate, as Cicero's lower part of a house assigned to someone, and to assign as one's lot, to confer honours.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Seneca it meant to entrust to a god's protection and to impute a quality.^(OLD 2012) From the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' it meant to ascribe, attribute to a person or cause, in Pliny the Elder to reckon in a class and to hand over to someone's keeping, and in Quintilian to seal.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to assign, designate.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''assegnare'' and French ''assigner'', and Old French ''assigner'' gave [[en|assign]] about 1300.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) Late Latin ''assignāmentum'' gave [[en|assignment]].^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of ascribing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of allotting land.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of sealing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1300 – English ''assign'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To allot (land).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|assign]]; to allot as one's fate; to confer.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To impute; to reckon in a class.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To ascribe, attribute.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To hand over, entrust.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To seal.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[assignātiō]]
+ * [[assignator]]
+ * [[inassignātus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[signō]]
+ * [[signum]]
+ * [[en|assign]]
+ * [[en|assignment]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}