cancello Latin · revision 9320

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Columella|origins=la cancer}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kaŋˈkɛl.loː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [kan̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛl.lo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cancellō''' (present infinitive cancellāre, perfect active cancellāvī, supine cancellātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[cancellī]] “lattice, grating” with the verb suffix ⟨-ō⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Columella, of laying out land in a grid.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note it is post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to arrange in a criss-cross pattern, as in Pliny the Elder, and to enclose in a lattice or lay out land in a grid, as of vines in Columella.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Ulpian it meant to cancel a document, originally by crossing it through.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ It survives in Italian ''cancellare'' and Spanish ''cancelar''.^(Wiktionary) Through Anglo-French and Old French ''canceler'' it gave [[en|cancel]] in the late 14th century, “to cross out with lines”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of laying out vines.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of cancelling.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English ''cancel'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To arrange crosswise, make like a lattice.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|cancel]], cross out.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cancellātim]]

+ * [[cancellātiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cancellārius]]

+ * [[cancellī]]

+ * [[cancellus]]

+ * [[cancellōsus]]

+ * [[en|cancel]]

+ * [[en|chancellor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}