obvenio Latin · revision 9231

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *gʷem-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɔbˈwɛ.ni.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [obˈvɛː.ni.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''obveniō''' (present infinitive obvenīre, perfect active obvēnī, supine obventum); fourth conjugation, third person-only in the passive^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ob-]] “towards” and [[veniō]] “to come”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨veniō⟩ to [[ine-pro|*gʷm̥-yé-|t=to come]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of falling to someone's lot and of happening.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to fall to someone's lot, be assigned, as a province to a magistrate, and to happen, occur, present itself, as in Plautus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Livy it meant to come face to face, meet.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ It survives in French ''obvenir'' and Catalan ''obvenir''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of meeting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To come to meet.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To fall to one's lot.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|happen]], occur.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[obvenientia]]

+ * [[obventīcius]]

+ * [[obventiō]]

+ * [[obventus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[adveniō]]

+ * [[anteveniō]]

+ * [[circumveniō]]

+ * [[contrāveniō]]

+ * [[conveniō]]

+ * [[dēveniō]]

+ * [[ēveniō]]

+ * [[interveniō]]

+ * [[inveniō]]

+ * [[perveniō]]

+ * [[veniō]]

+ * [[obviam]]

+ * [[obvius]]

+ * [[en|obvious]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}