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+ {{homograph|1|to send, commission}}
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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=la lēgō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [alˈleː.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [alˈlɛː.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''allēgō''' (present infinitive allēgāre, perfect active allēgāvī, supine allēgātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ It is also spelled ''adlēgō''.^(OLD 2012)
+
+ ==Etymology==
+ This verb is from [[ad-]] and [[lēgō]] “to send with a commission”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of sending someone as a representative.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to send someone as an intermediary or representative, and to employ as an agent, put someone up to something, suborn, as in Plautus.^(OLD 2012) In Seneca it meant to adduce in support of a plea, urge.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to dispatch, commission, instigate, adduce, pledge.^(Stelten 1995) It was borrowed into French ''alléguer'' and Spanish ''alegar''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|allege]] (about 1300, “make a formal declaration in court”) takes its form from Anglo-French ''alegier'' and its sense from Latin ''allēgāre''.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of sending.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of pleading.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1300 – English ''allege'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To send as a representative, [[m|en|depute]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To employ as an agent; to suborn.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To adduce, plead, [[m|en|allege]].^(OLD 2012)
+
+ ==Word family==
+ * [[allēgātiō]]
+ * [[allēgātus]]
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+ {{homograph|2|to elect, admit}}
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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Livy|origins=la legō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈal.lɛ.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈal.le.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)
+
+ ==Forms==
+ '''allegō''' (present infinitive allegere, perfect active allēgī, supine allēctum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ It is also spelled ''adlegō''.^(OLD 2012)
+
+ ==Etymology==
+ This verb is from [[ad-]] and [[legō]] “to gather, choose”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Lewis & Short cite Livy.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Livy 59 BC–17 AD.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to elect, admit or recruit into a body, and in Suetonius to select for a duty, appoint to an office.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ It survives in Romanian ''alege'' “to choose” and Dalmatian ''alege'', and English borrowed it as ''adlect''.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of appointing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To [[m|en|elect]], admit (into a body).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To appoint.^(OLD 2012)
+
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[ablēgō]]
+ * [[dēlēgō]]
+ * [[lēgō]]
+ * [[praelēgō]]
+ * [[relēgō]]
+ * [[en|allege]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}