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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *ten-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [atˈtɪ.ne.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [atˈtiː.ne.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''attineō''' (present infinitive attinēre, perfect active attinuī, supine attentum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ Also spelled ''adtineō''.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|ad-|teneō|t1=to|t2=to hold]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨teneō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*tenē-]], from [[ine-pro|*tn̥-eh₁-|t=to hold]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of holding something near and of detaining someone.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ Transitively it meant to hold to or near, keep in one's possession, retain, and to hinder, delay, detain, and Lewis & Short note that the active uses are only ante-classical or in the historians.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Intransitively it meant, with ''ad'', to extend to, reach, and to concern, be connected with, as in Plautus; impersonally, mostly with a negative, it meant to matter, be relevant, and to be fit or proper, as in Livy.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to pertain to, belong to.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''attenere'', French ''attenir'', Spanish ''atener'' and Romanian ''aține''.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of holding and of concerning.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it impersonally of what is fitting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To hold to or near.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To keep in one's possession, [[m|en|retain]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To hinder, delay, [[m|en|detain]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(with ad)'' To extend, reach to.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(with ad)'' To [[m|en|concern]], be connected with.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(impersonal, with a negative)'' To matter; to be fit or proper.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[attina]]
+ * [[perattentus]]
+ * [[attentus]]
+ * [[attinae]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[abstineō]]
+ * [[circumteneō]]
+ * [[contineō]]
+ * [[dētineō]]
+ * [[distineō]]
+ * [[obtineō]]
+ * [[pertineō]]
+ * [[retineō]]
+ * [[sustineō]]
+ * [[teneō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}