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The corpus record — Latin

with

with

chariot

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Where it lives

  • Hecyra 15 · 16.64/10k
  • Andria 13 · 13.2/10k
  • Adelphi 13 · 13.13/10k
  • Eunuchus 13 · 11.99/10k
  • Phormio 13 · 11.99/10k
  • Heautontimorumenos 8 · 7.28/10k
  • Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

1. with — de Vaan

with 'chariot' is not clear; some therefore regard it as a loanword from Etruscan curtus (office terminology). Pit. *-or- is reflect both as or and as ur in Latin; no phonetic conditioning has been found. We may therefore accept the traditional etymology *kys> *kors- > *kurs- > curr-. It is somewhat*troublesome that only Latin attests a verb, but since curro is of a primary derivation, it cannot be derived from the … — [de Vaan, s.v. with, p. 171]

2. with — de Vaan

with 'haste' is hardly compelling, so this etymology remains gratuitous. BibL: WH I: 259, 488, EM 231, IEW 143, Leumann 1977: 327, Schrijver 1990, 1995:410, Vine 1999c. -► mfestus — [de Vaan, s.v. with, p. 230]

3. with — de Vaan

with 'spoken praise', 'reputation by hearsay'. Against the assumed etymology speak the phonetics. A dissimilation *gnor- (> *gror-l) > *glor- is contradicted by gnarus and igndrare. On the other hand, gnarus kept its gn- on the model of ignarus, so that the retention of gn-r* in gnarus and ignorare may be due to non-initial (= VOLat. unstressed) position of the syllables in question. In *gnoria, the stress may have … — [de Vaan, s.v. with, p. 280]

In the wild

6 of 76 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. with (scan pp. 280-281; entry #703). Root candidates: *gnor-, *glor-, *gnos-.

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