The corpus record — Latin

neo1

to spin

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Where it lives

Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Mostellaria 2 · 2.08/10k
Trinummus 2 · 2.03/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Hecyra 1 · 1.11/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. neo — de Vaan

neo 'to spin' [v. II; pf nevi% ppp. netum] (P1.+) Pit *(s)ne(je)-. PIE *(s)nebr/*(s)nhr [pr«] 'to spin', IE cognates: Mir. sniid* -sni 'spins, restores', W. nyddu, MCo. nedha, MBret. nezaff'to spin' < PCI *smje/o-; Gr. 3s. vf}, 3p. νώσι, ipf έννη (Aeol.), inf. vfjv 'to spin', beside νήύω; Latv, snqju, snat 'to wind together loosely, braid'; OHG naen 'to sew'. It is impossible to say whether Latin continues the PIE … — [de Vaan, s.v. neo, p. 419]

2. nĕo — Lewis & Short

nĕo, ēvi, ētum, 2, v. a.root ne-; Gr. ne/w, nh/qw; cf. Sanscr. nah = nectere,

I to spin.

I Lit.: subtemen tenue nere, Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 20; Ov. Med. Fac. 14: sic stamina nevit, id. F. 2, 771: nerunt fatales fortia fila deae, id. P. 1, 8, 64; cf.: Parcae fatalia nentes Stamina, Tib. 1, 7, 1.—

II Transf., to weave; to interlace, entwine: tunicam mater quam neverat auro, Verg. A. 10, 818: hoc neverat unum mater opus, Stat. Th. 9, 691: inter se radices mutuo discursu nentur, Plin. 17, 20, 33, § 144.

3. Nĕo — Lewis & Short

Nĕo or Nĕon, ōnis, m., = *ne/wn,

I a male proper name, Liv. 44, 43; 45, 31.

4. neö — Walde–Hofmann

neö (vulg. neunt Itala = nent nach eunt), nört, nätum, -äre ,spinne* (ntum n. "Gespinst^) ; dicht. „webe“ (seit Plaut. [ per- seit Mart.,reneö seit Ov.]; nemen, -Inis n. CE, 436, 11 , Gespinst* [junge Bldg. nach stämen, nicht ererbt trotz Brugmann II* 1, 235 — gr. vApa, woraus nima Dig), nitus, -üs m. ds. Mart. Cap.): aus *ene-jó (oder edo) = ai, (unbel.) sndyati „umwindet, bekleidet“, gr. viv (*evnyew), Ipf. &-vn … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. neö, p. 1065]

In the wild

nevis Plautus, Mostellaria 5.2
nentes Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.453
Neam Terence, Phormio 4.1
Neo Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.45.31.15
nete Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.4.5
Neam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.31.p2

6 of 49 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. neo (scan pp. 419-420; entry #1136). Root candidates: *nepot-, *neptT-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. neo (scan p. 461; entry #7420).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. neö (scan pp. 1065-1067; entry #1839). Root candidates: *snö-, *sni-, *snöj-.

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