ablego Latin · revision 9669

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=la lēx}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [abˈɫeː.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [abˈlɛː.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ablēgō''' (present infinitive ablēgāre, perfect active ablēgāvī, supine ablēgātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ab-|lēgō|t1=away from|t2=to send, depute]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ⟨lēgō⟩ is from [[m|la|lēx|t=law]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*lēg-]]; he dates ⟨ablēgāre⟩ “to send away on a mission” from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, ''aliquem forās ablēgāre'' “to send someone out of the house”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to send away on a mission or errand, as in Plautus, and to send away, banish, get rid of, as in Varro and Cicero, who has ''ā frātris adventū ablēgāre'' “to keep someone away from his brother's arrival”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to send off or away, remove.^(Stelten 1995) English ''ablegate'' and Portuguese ''ablegar'' are from it.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of banishing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To send away on a [[m|en|mission]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To send away, [[m|en|banish]], get rid of.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ablēgātiō]]

+ * [[ablegmina]]

+ * [[ablegmen]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[allēgō]]

+ * [[dēlēgō]]

+ * [[praelēgō]]

+ * [[relēgō]]

+ * [[lēgō]]

+ * [[lēgātus]]

+ * [[en|ablegate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}