“get” in Latin

TRANS.,

To obtain (whether permanently or for a time), accipere (general term, to receive): ferre: auferre (to carry off as the produce of one’s exertions, etc., anything good or bad): nancisci (by chance, opportunity, or any other cause, without our own co-operation): obtingit mihi aliquid (anything falls to my lot; similar to nancisci): impetrare (to obtain by asking): adipisci (to achieve by exertion): assequi (to obtain an object for which anybody has striven): consequi (to obtain an object one has desired; with or without assistance; a more general term than assequi): acquirere (to acquire or win what one has sought with great exertion): obtinere (to obtain and keep possession of anything against great opposition): sortiri: sorte nancisci: sortem alicujus rei nancisci (to get or obtain by lot): potiri aliqua re or (rare) aliquid (to get into anybody’s power): compotem fieri alicujus rei (to obtain possession of; e.g., one’s wish): incidere in aliquid: corripi, tentari aliqua re (to fall into, especially into diseases): augeri aliqua re (to be blessed with anything, as with riches, children): quaerere (obtain by seeking; e.g., victum, gloriam, gratiam ad populum): parare: comparare (provide; procure by one’s own means; also = to get anything ready [Vid: below], parare convivium, quae opus sunt ad nuptias, bellum, etc.; comparare convivium, arma, bellum, exercitus, etc.): colligere (to gather, as it were, good-will, favor, etc.): parere sibi aliquid (to beget, as it were; to receive as the fruit of some exertion or step; e.g., laudem). To have got [on this idiom, Vid: note at the end of the article], habere: not to get, non accipere (general term, it has not been given to me); defraudari aliqua re (to be cheated out of a thing); res abiit a me (at an auction; it was knocked down to somebody else): to get children [Vid: BEGET]: to have got the left shoe on the right foot, calceus sinister pro dextero inductus est (Suet., Aug., 92): to get the day [Vid: “to GAIN the victory”]: get you gone! abi! apage te! amove te hinc! get out of my sight! abscede procul e conspectu meo! To get by heart [Vid: HEART]: to get a name from any circumstance, cognomen trahere ex re: to get courage, accedit mihi animus: to get booty, praedam nancisci: to get a rich booty, opima prasda potiri: to get anybody’s permission to do anything, ab aliquo impetrare, ut liceat mihi aliquid facere (Cic.): to get money, pecuniam sibi facere; great wealth and great reputation, magnas opes magnumque nomen sibi facere; great influence, magnam auctoritatem sibi constituere; ill-gotten wealth, male partum or -a, [Vid: ill-gotten GAINS]. To get a cold, fever, headache, etc.; Vid: the substantives. To get anything from anybody, impetrare, exorare aliquid a aliquo (by entreaties); exprimere, extorquere alicui aliquid (by force); expugnare aliquid ab aliquo (by a violent struggle): elicere (by persuasive means). Not to be able to get a word from or out of anybody, ex aliquo verbum elicere non posse: to get one’s living by anything, victum quaeritare aliqua re: to get a scanty living, vitam tolerare, paupertatem sustentare or famem propulsare aliqua re or aliquid faciendo: you may always get fresh-baked bread here, semper hic recentis panis est copia: what good should I get by telling you a lie? quid mihi sit boni, si mentiar (comedy)? easily got, parabilis: this may be got for asking, or without the slightest trouble, haec virgula divina, ut aiunt, suppeditantur (Cic., Off., 1, 44, 158, proverbially): to get an answer, responsum ferre or auferre; to my letter from anybody, meis litteris respondetur or rescribitur ab aliquo: to get a situation, office, munus alicui mandatur, defertur: muneri praeficior: to get anything out of one’s head, memoriam alicujus rei ex animo ejicere (purposely). When he saw he could get nothing out of him by threatening to go to law, posteaquam vidit nihil se ab aliquo posse litium terrore abradere (Cic.): to get (a secret, etc.) out of anybody, ex aliquo percunctando atque interrogando or sciscitando elicere: expiscari (to fish out), aliquid alicui or ex aliquo.

Gain, Vid:

To get anybody to do anything, impetrare (ab aliquo), ut faciat aliquid (e.g., having got them to stay, impetrato [ablative participle] ut manerent, Liv.). [Vid: To INDUCE.]

To get anything done, aliquid faciendum curare: aliquid alicui curandum tradere (to give it another person to manage, etc.); but, as in English, a person is often said “to do” what he really “gets done” for him by another; e.g., wishing to get a ring made, cum vellet annulum sibi facere (Cic., Verr., 4, 25, 66): to get anything carried to the army by ships, aliquid exercitui navibus supportare (Caes., B.C., 3, 44).

To have got to do, etc. (= to have that task, etc.), by participle in dus: I have got many letters to write, multae mihi epistolae scribendae sunt. ☞ “To have got” [ = to have] a book, etc., is objected to by Webster and other writers as a vulgarism; but it is not only thoroughly idiomatical, but may be easily justified. “To get” being “to acquire” (receive, obtain, etc.); “to have got” = “to have acquired” (received, obtained), and so “to have,” “to possess;” and it so happens that the sister word has the same peculiarity in Greek, κτάομαι, “I get” [where the radicals κτ correspond to gt, the smooth mute κ having passed, according to Grimm’s law, into the middle mute g]; κέκτημαι,” I have got” = “I have” or “possess.” Webster also objects to “I could not get him to do this” [Addison], and “I could not get the work done,” as not elegant. It is to be hoped that the time for sacrificing our old idioms to modern and sickly notions of elegance is pretty nearly gone by. For other combinations; e.g., to get anybody’s CONSENT, etc., Vid: the substantives.

with adverbs, adjectives, etc. (A) TRANS.,

To get anything or anybody AWAY [Vid: “to GET anything from anybody”].

To get DOWN [Vid: “to REACH down”].

To get IN: (α) To get in crops, percipere fruges or fructus: condere, or condere et reponere (to store them in the barn). (β) To gel in debts, etc., exigere (e.g., pecunias). (γ) To get in a store, etc.; e.g., anything for the winter, in hiemem providere aliquid; a large supply of corn, frumenti vim maximam comparare.

To get anything OFF: (α) To get shoes, etc., off [Vid: “to PULL off”]. (β) To get a ship off the shoals, etc., navem detrudere (e.g., scopulo, Verg.), (γ) To get anybody’s goods, etc., off, vendere.

To get anything ON, inducere (to pull or draw on, e.g., a shoe, calceum sibi inducere): induere (e.g., a coat, etc., sibi vestem or se veste). A shoe that anybody can hardly get on, calceus minor pede or pedem urens (both Hor., Ep., 1, 10, 42): a coat, etc., that one can hardly get on, *vestis nimis stricta or astricta.

To get OUT: (α) To get anything from anybody [Vid: above, near the end of To GET, TRANS.] . (β) To draw out, to disengage, Vid:

To get OVER: (α) PROPR., a wall, etc. [Vid: To CLIMB, To CROSS]. (β) IMPROPR., [Vid: To SURMOUNT, CONQUER; and for that “which cannot be got over,” Vid: INSURMOUNTABLE]. (γ) To get over a sickness, ex morbo convalescere: morbum depellere.

To get READY, parare: comparare [Vid: these words above]: every thing is got ready, omnia sunt [ad aliquid] apta et parata: to get one’s self ready, comparare se (Cic., Mil., 10, 28); for anything, ad aliquid or ad rem faciendam (e.g., ad iter, ad respondendum): to order breakfast to be got ready at his house, prandium apud se accurari jubere: to get a vessel ready for sea [Vid: READY].

To get TOGETHER [Vid: To COLLECT, AMASS, ASSEMBLE].

To get UP: (α) To prepare a play, edere fabulam (of the person at whose expense it is exhibited; seldom dare; fabulam docere, is of the author making the actors practise it, etc.; who, with reference to this kind of “getting up” = “learning it,” discunt fabulam; Vid: Krebs): apparare (e.g., ludos, of preparing all that is necessary to their exhibition): comparare (e.g., convivium): splendidly got up, magnifice splendideque ornatus: magnifice et ornate comparatus (both e.g., convivium). (β) To raise (a building), erigere: excitare, etc. To have nearly got a house up, paene ad fastigium pervenisse: to get up hastily some temporary building, subitarium aedificium exstruere (Tac.). (γ) To pull up or aloft, tollere: attollere: levare: sublevare (to help up). (δ) To make anybody rise, excitare aliquem (to call him, etc.); *efficere, ut e lecto surgat aliquis (to succeed in making him get out of bed). (B) INTRANS.,

To get ABROAD (of reports, etc.), exire in turbam or in vulgus: emanare (in vulgus). (The words are found in this connection and order.) exire atque in vulgus emanare: efferri (foras or in vulgus): effluere et ad aures bominum permanare: to let anything get abroad [Vid: To REPORT, To PUBLISH]: to prevent anything from getting abroad, alicujus rei famam comprimere or supprimere.

To get AHEAD [Vid: To ADVANCE, To PROSPER]: to get ahead of [Vid: To OUTSTRIP].

To get ALONG [Vid: To PROCEED, To ADVANCE].

To get AMONG, incidere in aliquos or inter catervas (Liv., ; to fall among persons).

To get AT [Vid: To REACH].

To get AWAY [Vid: To ESCAPE (from)].

To get BACK, repetere retro viam (Liv.) [Vid: To RETURN].

To get BEFORE, praevenire (aliquem or aliquid; by taking a shorter road, breviore via, Liv.): antevenire (e.g., exercitum Metelli): praecurrere aliquem (to outstrip him): post se relinquere (to leave behind). The report gets before my letter, fama meam epistolam celeritate superat: he cannot get before him without great carelessness on his part, ut eum praecurrat, sine magna negligentia fieri non potest (Quint., Cic. IMPROP.). If anybody has got before you, si aliquis ante te fuerit (Sen., Ep., 104, of an ambitious man).

To get BEHIND: (α) To fall in the rear, ab aliquo superari: (procul) ab aliquo relinqui: (β) To place one’s self behind, for the purpose of hiding, post aliquid latere (Verg.).

To get the BETTER of [Vid: To CONQUER, SURMOUNT].

To get BETWEEN, medium se inferre: inter medios (e.g., hostes) irrumpere: insinuare se (e.g., inter turmas, to wind one’s self in, as it were).

To get CLEAR [Vid: “to get or become FREE (from),” to DISENGAGE one’s self].

To get DOWN [Vid: To DESCEND].

To get FORWARD [Vid: To ADVANCE, To PROCEED].

To get FROM [Vid: To ESCAPE from].

To get IN: (Α) PROPR., insinuare se in aliquem locum; or by the verbs under To ENTER. You must get out by the same way that you got in, eadem, qua te insinuasti (insinuaveris, etc.) retro via repetenda (Liv., 9, 2, 8). (β) IMPROPR., Evils, etc., get in, mala se insinuant. (γ) To get in with anybody, insinuare se in familiaritatem or consuetudinem alicujus: gratiam alicujus parere: in alicujus consuetudinem se immergere (aliqua re; e.g., blanditiis et assentationibus).

To get INTO: (α) PROPR., locus capit aliquid (it can get into it): immergi in aliquid (of what one sinks into; e.g., in paludem): devenire (into something bad or wrong; e.g., in alicujus potestatem or manus; in alienas manus): incidere in aliquid (to fall into, especially against anybody’s will): incurrere in aliquid (to run into, especially from anybody’s own fault): decidere in aliquid (to sink into a bad state; e.g., to get into pecuniary difficulties, in angustias rei familiaris): adduci in aliquid (to be brought into danger, difficulty, etc.): (in) aliquem locum intrare (etc., to enter): in aliquem locum se insinuare (to wind one’s self in, by making one’s way through obstacles, etc.). To get into port, portum capere: in portum venire, pervenire: in portum ex alto recipi: in portum penetrare (Cic.): to get into one’s carriage, inscendere in currum (Plaut.); ascendere currum (Lucr., Suet.); conscendere currum (Lucr., Ov., Propertius). To get into a house, in domum or domicilium immigrare. (β) To gel into favor with anybody [Vid: “to get in with anybody”].

To get NEAR [Vid: To APPROACH].

To get OFF: (α) From a horse, etc. [Vid: To DISMOUNT, To ALIGHT]. (β) To get clear from [Vid: To ESCAPE, To DISENTANGLE one’s self]. (γ) To escape from the consequences of a fault, etc., defungi (e.g., with a slight punishment, levi poena; by a lie, mendacio): elabi ex judicio (to escape punishment in a court of justice; of an accused person): to get off without any punishment, peccata impune dilabuntur (Auct., ad Her., 2, 25, 39): I have got off belter than I expected, pulchre discedo et probe et praeter spem (Terentianus, Phorm., 5, 9, 58). [Vid: to COME OFF, β.]

To get ON: (α) To climb, to mount, Vid: (β) To advance, prosper, make progress, Vid: (γ) To get on (well) with anybody, commode versari cum aliquo: ferre aliquem: a person with whom we can get on well, homo facilis, conimodus, tractabilis (opposed to difficilis, difficilis et morosus, intractabilis).

To get OUT: (α) PROPR., Of a place, exire: egredi, etc. You must get out by the way you got in [Vid: “get IN”]. To get out of one’s carriage, ex or de rheda descendere. (β) To get out of a scrape, etc. [Vid: To EXTRICATE one’s self from]. (γ) To get out of one’s depth, [Vid: DEPTH].

Get QUIT or RID of: (α) A person [Vid. RID, adjective]. (β) Of a thing [Vid: To DISENGAGE, To DISENTANGLE, To EXTRICATE one’s self].

Get THROUGH: (α) PROPR., penetrare per aliquem locum; or (to a place), ad aliquem locum, in aliquem locum usque. (β) To finish a task [Vid: FINISH]. (γ) To get to the end of a sum of money, a fortune, etc. [ Vid: To SPEND].

Get TO [Vid: To REACH].

To get TOGETHER [Vid: To ASSEMBLE or COLLECT, INTRANS.] .

Get UP: (α) To rise (including the rising in price), Vid: (β) [Vid: To CLIMB, To MOUNT.]

Get UPON: (α) [Vid: “get on”]. (β) To get upon one’s feet, se erigere (e.g., of a little child trying to raise itself from the ground). (γ) To get upon a subject, in sermonem incidere.

Get the UPPER hand [Vid. CONQUER, PREVAIL AGAINST].