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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la emō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈa.dɪ.moː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈaː.di.mo]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''adimō''' (present infinitive adimere, perfect active adēmī, supine adēmptum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ Plautus has ''adempsit'' for ''adēmerit''.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[ad-]] and [[emō]] “to take, buy”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of taking property away and of removing by death.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to take away by force, to remove a part of the body, as in Livy, and in Plautus to take property away, confiscate, to remove by death, and to take off fetters.^(OLD 2012) In Cicero it meant to take a command out of someone's hands, to withhold, and to shut out light; the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of depriving of life or sleep.^(OLD 2012) In Ulpian it meant to annul, and an inscription uses it for buying.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein explains that ''dēmere'', ''adimere'' and ''eximere'' are takings away without force or fraud.^(Döderlein 1874)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to remove, take away, deprive of.^(Stelten 1995) Its participle ''ademptus'' is behind the legal terms [[en|adeem]] and [[en|adempt]].^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of taking away and killing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of withholding.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of annulling.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To take away, [[m|en|remove]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To confiscate; to take (a command) from.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To deprive of; to withhold.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To annul.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To shut out (light).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To kill.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[adēmptiō]]
+ * [[ademptor]]
+ * [[ademptus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[coemō]]
+ * [[cōmō]]
+ * [[dirimō]]
+ * [[eximō]]
+ * [[interimō]]
+ * [[perimō]]
+ * [[prōmō]]
+ * [[redimō]]
+ * [[emō]]
+ * [[en|adeem]]
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+ ==Usage notes==
+ Döderlein distinguishes it from [[dēmō]] and [[eximō]].^(Döderlein 1874)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}