meo Latin · revision 9655

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=Naevius|origins=ine-pro *h₂mey-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈme.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈmɛː.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''meō''' (present infinitive meāre, perfect active meāvī, supine meātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*mejo-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*h₂mey-|t=to exchange]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan thinks the verb may be denominal, from a noun meaning “movement, passage”; a deverbal formation is less likely because it is intransitive.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognates include [[sa|मयते|tr=mayate|t=alternates]] and Middle Welsh ⟨tremyn-⟩ “to go past”.^(de Vaan 2008) The OLD compares Polish ⟨mijam⟩ and Welsh ⟨mynet⟩.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Naevius, and the OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Naevius c. 235–200 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to go, pass, travel, and transitively to pass through, traverse.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan in prose, citing Horace's ''quō simul meāris''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Its compounds were more common: ''commeāre'' “to go regularly” from Plautus on, ''praetermeāre'' and ''remeāre'', and the noun ''meātus'' “course” from Lucretius on.^(de Vaan 2008) It survives in Italian ''meare''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To go, pass, [[m|en|travel]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To pass through, [[m|en|traverse]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[admeō]]

+ * [[circummeo]]

+ * [[commeō]]

+ * [[dēmeō]]

+ * [[emeo]]

+ * [[immeō]]

+ * [[intermeō]]

+ * [[meābilis]]

+ * [[meāculum]]

+ * [[meātor]]

+ * [[meātus]]

+ * [[permeō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[moenia]]

+ * [[mūnus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}