From: squilluncus
Message: 37249
Date: 2005-04-18
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "George Hinge" <litgh@...> wrote:
> As a preverb, con- has both the primary comitative sense
("together
> with"), e.g. colloquor, and other derived notions such as
completeness,
> e.g. conficio, and enclosure, e.g. contineo.
>
> Conclave is not only a room with a key, but a room, which is
closed and
> enclosed (also an aviary or toilet)
Thus: a room provided with a key.
Likewise: compes "a fetter together with a foot"?
Contumelia an encounter from which you make your exit provided with
tumid lips?
> and may (not formally, but
semantically speaking) be derived from concludo "shut up, confine,
enclose".
The same for consul and consulere?
What is –sul? Something to do with sed- like solium?
Two persons presiding the Senate together?
Lars