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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cato|origins=la pōnō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ɪn.tɛrˈpoː.noː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [in.terˈpɔː.no]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''interpōnō''' (present infinitive interpōnere, perfect active interposuī or interposīvī, supine interpositum or interpostum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[inter-]] “between” and [[pōnō]] “to put”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Cato, of placing between.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cato 234–149 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to place between, insert, as in Cato, and in Seneca to put among.^(OLD 2012) In Cicero it meant to insert in a speech or book, to interpose a delay, a hindrance or a pretext, to bring someone in as a party or witness, and reflexively to intervene, interfere.^(OLD 2012) In Livy it meant to insert in a series, and the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of bringing into play, as ''auctōritātem interpōnere'' “to exert one's influence”.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to interpose, insert, put between.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''interporre'', French ''interposer'' and Spanish ''interponer'', and through French it gave [[en|interpose]] in the 1590s.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of placing between.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses ''auctōritātem interpōnere''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of interfering.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1590s – English ''interpose'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To place between, insert.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To include (in a speech).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|interpose]] (a delay, a hindrance).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To bring into play, ''auctōritātem interpōnere'', to exert one's influence.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To bring in as a party or witness.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Reflexively, to intervene.^(OLD 2012)
+ 
+ ==Word family==
+ * [[interpositiō]]
+ * [[interpositus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[pōnō]]
+ * [[en|interpose]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}