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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Naevius|origins=ine-pro *Hyeh₁-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [aˈmɪ.ki.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [aˈmiː.t͡ʃi.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''amiciō''' (present infinitive amicīre, perfect active amicuī or amixī, supine amictum); fourth conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ Perfect ''amicuī'' or ''amixī'', and Plautus has the passive infinitive ''amicīrier'' and future ''amicībor''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[ambi-]] “around” and [[iaciō]] “to throw”, “to throw round oneself”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Gaffiot 2016) De Vaan traces ⟨iaciō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*jak-i-|t=to throw]], from [[ine-pro|*Hyeh₁-|t=to throw, let go]].^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary reports Schrijver's view that it shows an Italo-Celtic type of fourth-conjugation derivative.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Naevius, of dressing.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Naevius c. 235–200 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to wrap an outer garment round someone, clothe, dress, mostly in the passive, as in Naevius and Plautus, and Gaffiot contrasts it with ''induere'' “to put on”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In poetry it meant to surround or cover as with clothing, as in Catullus, and figuratively to clothe in words.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to wrap about, clothe.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it in the passive.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it figuratively.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To [[m|en|clothe]], wrap (in an outer garment), (passive) to dress.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # To cover, surround as with clothing.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[amicimen]]
+ * [[amictorium]]
+ * [[amictus]]
+ * [[amiculum]]
+ * [[sēmiamictus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[abiciō]]
+ * [[adiciō]]
+ * [[circumiciō]]
+ * [[cōniciō]]
+ * [[dēiciō]]
+ * [[disiciō]]
+ * [[ēiciō]]
+ * [[iaciō]]
+ * [[iniciō]]
+ * [[intericiō]]
+ * [[induō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}