compar Latin · revision 9453

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=la con-, la pār}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkɔm.paːr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkɔm.par]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''compār''' (genitive comparis); third-declension one-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''conpar''; ablative ''comparī'' or ''compare''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

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

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

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

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it meant similar, matching, as in Livy's ''cōnsilium cōnsiliō compār'' “a plan matching another”, and equal, on equal terms.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) As a noun it was a fellow, partner, comrade, and a husband or wife, as in Plautus and the poets; in rhetoric the neuter was a sentence of clauses with nearly the same number of syllables, as in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant companion, and like, equal.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it was a person of the same legal status, a peer, a fellow vassal.^(Niermeyer 1976) Its verb [[comparō]] “to match, compare” is the source of [[en|compare]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 86/82 BC – the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of balanced clauses.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of similar things.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Similar, matching; equal.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A partner, comrade; a [[m|en|spouse]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' A sentence of balanced clauses.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|peer]], fellow vassal.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[comparō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pār]]

+ * [[dispār]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}