cohibeo Latin · revision 9248

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=la habeō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [koˈ(ɦ)ɪ.be.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [koˈiː.be.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cohibeō''' (present infinitive cohibēre, perfect active cohibuī, supine cohibitum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Lucretius has the old perfect subjunctive ''cohibessit''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[con-]] “together” and [[habeō]] “to hold”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of holding in subjection.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to hold together, as in Pacuvius, and to contain, comprehend, as in Cicero's “universal nature contains all natures”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Plautus it meant to restrain, control, and reflexively to exercise self-restraint; in Livy to confine and to hold back from movement; and in Pliny the Elder to check growth.^(OLD 2012)

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+ It was borrowed into Spanish ''cohibir'' and English ''cohibit''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius uses it of holding together.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of containing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To hold together.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To contain.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To confine; to [[m|en|restrain]], check.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To control, repress.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cohibilis]]

+ * [[cohibitiō]]

+ * [[cohibitus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[abhibeō]]

+ * [[adhibeō]]

+ * [[antehabeō]]

+ * [[diribeō]]

+ * [[exhibeō]]

+ * [[habeō]]

+ * [[inhibeō]]

+ * [[perhibeō]]

+ * [[posthabeō]]

+ * [[praehibeō]]

+ * [[prohibeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}