comparo Latin · revision 8159

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+ {{homograph|1|prepare, procure}}
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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkɔm.pa.roː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkɔm.pa.ro]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''comparō''' (present infinitive comparāre, perfect active comparāvī, supine comparātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ The verb “to prepare” is a compound of [[con-]] and [[parō]] “to prepare, make ready”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Plautus has slaves who “devised and made up a trick”.^(OLD 2012) Accius has “steel yourself and prepare”.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to prepare or get ready, especially for war: Cicero speaks of a war not being prepared but already waged, and Caesar of preparing help against every chance.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also meant to devise or plan, to procure or provide, as Caesar's ''rē frūmentāriā comparātā'' “having got supplies of grain”, and to raise troops.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Another sense was to arrange or establish, of laws and customs.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the jurists it meant to buy, the sense that survives in Italian ''comprare'', Spanish and Portuguese ''comprar'' and Romanian ''cumpăra''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of devising a trick.^(OLD 2012)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of preparing an accusation and a war.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of procuring supplies.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ * c. 61–113 AD – Pliny the Younger, of buying estates.^(Georges 1913)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To [[m|en|prepare]], get ready, ''(reflexive)'' to prepare oneself.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # To make preparations for (war, flight); to plan, [[m|en|devise]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)
+ # To procure, [[m|en|provide]], raise (troops, supplies).^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # To arrange, establish.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # ''(Late Latin)'' To [[m|en|buy]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
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+ {{homograph|2|compare, match}}
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  {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la pār}}
  
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  * [[pār]]
  * [[en|compare]]
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− ==Usage notes==
− A different verb ''comparō'', from [[con-]] and [[parō]] “to prepare”, meant to prepare, provide, procure, buy, and to arrange or establish; it is the source of Italian ''comprare'' and Spanish ''comprar'' “to buy”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ * [[parō]]
  
  ==References==