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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *peh₂ǵ-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔmˈpɪŋ.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [komˈpiŋ.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''compingō''' (present infinitive compingere, perfect active compēgī, supine compāctum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ Also spelled ''conpingō''.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[con-]] and [[pangō]] “to fix, fasten”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces ⟨pangō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*pang-|t=to attach]], from [[ine-pro|*ph₂-n-ǵ-|t=to attach]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of shutting someone up.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to shut up, put away, as in Plautus; to fix together, bind, as in Vitruvius; and to build, put together, construct, as in Cicero and Virgil, whose participle ''compāctus'' means well joined, compact.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to construct, join together.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of building.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of fixing together.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To shut up, put away.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To fix together, bind.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To put together, [[m|en|construct]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[compactilis]]
+ * [[compāctiō]]
+ * [[compactiuus]]
+ * [[compactūra]]
+ * [[compāgēs]]
+ * [[compagina]]
+ * [[compāgō]]
+ * [[recompingo]]
+ * [[compāctus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[pangō]]
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+ ==Usage notes==
+ A rare ''compingō'' “to paint over”, from [[pingō]] “to paint”, is used by Seneca figuratively of Aristarchus disguising other men's poems.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}