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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *gʷem-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [pɛrˈwɛ.ni.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [perˈvɛː.ni.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''perveniō''' (present infinitive pervenīre, perfect active pervēnī, supine perventum); fourth conjugation, impersonal in the passive^(Wiktionary)
+ Plautus has the present subjunctive ''pervenat''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[per-]] “through” and [[veniō]] “to come”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨veniō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*gʷn-je/o-|t=to come]], from [[ine-pro|*gʷm̥-yé-]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of property passing into someone's hands.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to come to a place, arrive, as in Nepos; to get through, reach, as in Cicero; to extend as far as, as in Livy; with ''ad aurēs'' to come to someone's ears; of goods, to pass into someone's hands; to arrive at by reasoning; to attain an office or status, as in Terence; to come into a condition; to reach a stage; and of prices to rise or fall to, as in Caesar.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to come, arrive, attain, reach.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''pervenire'' and French ''parvenir''.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of attaining.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of getting through.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To come, [[m|en|arrive]], reach.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To extend as far as.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To come into the hands of.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|attain]] (an office, a condition, a stage).^(OLD 2012)
+ # (of prices) To rise or fall to.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[perventiō]]
+ * [[perventor]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[adveniō]]
+ * [[anteveniō]]
+ * [[circumveniō]]
+ * [[contrāveniō]]
+ * [[conveniō]]
+ * [[dēveniō]]
+ * [[ēveniō]]
+ * [[interveniō]]
+ * [[inveniō]]
+ * [[obveniō]]
+ * [[veniō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}