inventum Latin · revision 9543

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inventum''' ''n'' (genitive inventī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the neuter of [[inventus]], perfect participle of [[inveniō]] “to come upon, find”, used as a noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Terence, of a contrivance.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Terence 190–159 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a thing devised, a plan, contrivance, as in Terence's curse on someone ''cum istōc inventō'' “with that invention of yours”; in rhetoric a topic or argument for a speech; and a discovery, invention, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Medieval Latin it was the right to seize strayed property.^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin used it for a thing found, glossed Middle English ''fundles''.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a discovery.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A discovery, [[m|en|invention]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A device, contrivance, plan; a topic.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A thing found; the right to strayed property.^(DMLBS)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[inveniō]]

+ * [[inventiō]]

+ * [[inventor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}