apio.
to bind, fasten, join; attach, connect
Meaning & usage
to bind, fasten, join; attach, connect
to snag, snare
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European [Term?]der. Proto-Italic *apjō Latin apiō Probably from Proto-Italic *apjō. The following two Indo-European roots have been proposed: * Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep- (“grab, snatch, get”). The LIV suggests a possible derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁p-yé-ti, though De Vaan alternatively reconstructs an athematic i-present of the shape *h₁p-i-. Potential cognates include Hittite 𒂊𒅁𒍣 (ēp(p)zi ~ ap(p)anz(i), “to take, grab”). * Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“to attach, join”). Potential cognates include Hittite 𒄩𒀊 (ḫapp-, “to join, attach”), Ancient Greek ἅπτω (háptō, “to fasten”). Within Latin, other possibly related terms include apīscor, coepiō, cōpula (“bond, tie, connection; band, leash”), apex. The only form of apiō in common use is the perfect participle aptus, which is used as an adjective with a range of senses, not all of which necessarily share the same etymology. (Rix derives the adjective aptus (“suitable, fitting”) from *h₂ep- but apiō and apīscor from *h₁ep-.) The present (or infectum) stem is attested only a few times, in etymological explanations given in works of Saint Isidore of Seville, Paul the Deacon (summarizing Sextus Pompeius Festus) and Servius, as well as glosses. The perfect stem is hypothesized to have originally been *ēp-; compare coēpit in Lucretius 4.619.
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