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ăd-ŏpĕrĭo, ĕrŭi, ertum, 4, v. a., to cover up or over (not used before the Aug. per., and gen. in the part. perf. pass.): capite adoperto, Liv. 1, 26; id. Epit. 89, and Suet. Ner. 48: purpureo adopertus amictu, Verg. A. 3, 405: tempora adoperta cucullo, Juv. 8, 145: adopertam floribus humum, Ov. M. 15, 688; cf. id. ib. 8, 701: hiems gelu, id. F. 3, 235: aether nubibus, id. ib. 2, 75: lumina somno, id. M. 1, 714: tenebris mors, Tib. 1, 1, 70: foribus adopertis, with closed doors, Suet. Oth. 11.
In the verb. finit.: Quidam prius tuto sale sex horis (ova) adoperiunt, Col. 8, 6: pellem setis adoperuit, Lact. Op. Dei, 7.
Hence, ădŏpertē, adv., v. the foll. art.

ădŏpertē, adv. [adoperio], covertly, in a dark, mysterious manner: denuntiare, Mart. Cap. 8, p. 303.

ădŏpertum, i, n. [adoperio], that which is mysterious, a mystery, App. M. 2.

* ăd-ŏpīnor, ārei, v. dep., to think, suppose, or conjecture further ( = opinando adicio): adopinamur de signis maxima parvis, Lucr. 4, 816.

ădoptātīcĭus (not -tītĭus), a, um, adj. [adopto], adopted, received in the place of a child; only in Plaut., Poen. 5, 2, 85: Demarcho item ipse fuit adoptaticius, ib. 100.
Acc. to Festus, it signifies the son of one who is adopted: ex adoptato filio natus, p. 29 Müll.

ădoptātĭo, ōnis, f. [id.; access. form of adoptio, by which it was supplanted after the class. per.], an adopting, receiving as a child, υἱοθεσία: quid propagatio nominis, quid adoptationes filiorum, Cic. Tusc. 1, 14, 31: adoptatio Theophani agitata est, id. Balb. 25, 57: ipsum illum adoptatione in regnum pervenisse, Sall. J. 11, 6: quod per praetorem fit, adoptatio dicitur; quod per populum, arrogatio, Gell. 5, 19; Tert. adv. Gent. 2, 1.

ădoptātor, ōris, m. [id.; access. form of adoptio, by which it was supplanted after the class. per.], one that adopts another, an adopter, Gell. 5, 19; Dig. 37, 9, 1, § 12 med.

ădoptĭo, ōnis, f. [v. adoptatio],

  1. I. a taking or receiving of one in the place of a child (also of a grandchild, Dig. 1, 7, 10), an adopting, adoption (properly of one still under paternal authority, in patria potestate; on the contr., arrogatio referred to one who was already independent, homo sui juris. The former took place before the praetor or other magistrate and five witnesses, by a threefold mancipatio, i. e. sham sale; the latter could only be effected before the assembled people in the comitia curiata, Gell. 5, 19; Just. Inst. 1, 11; Dig. 1, 7. More used than adoptatio, q. v.): emancipare filium alicui in adoptionem, Cic. Fin. 1, 7: dare se alicui in adoptionem, Vell. 2, 8, 2; Suet. Tib. 2; cf. Liv. 45, 40: adscire aliquem per adoptionem, Tac. A. 1, 3; or, in adoptionem, id. H. 2, 1: inserere aliquem familiae per adoptionem, Suet. Claud. 39 fin.: adscitus adoptione in imperium et cognomentum, Tac. A. 11, 11: adoptio in Domitium festinatur, id. ib. 12, 25: adoptionem nuncupare, to make known, to announce, id. H. 1, 17: adoptio consularis, performed by a consul, Quint. prooem. 6, 13 Spald. al.
  2. II. Transf., of plants, the ingrafting, Plin. prooem. 1, 16.
    Of bees, the admittance to or reception in a new hive: ut tamquam novae prolis adoptione domicilia confirmentur, Col. 9, 13, 9.
    In eccl. Lat., in spiritual sense of adoption as children of God: adoptionem filiorum Dei, Vulg. Rom. 8, 23; ib. Gal. 4, 5; ib. Ephes. 1, 5.

ădoptīvus, a, um, adj. [adopto], pertaining to adoption, made or acquired by adoption, adoptive: filius, an adopted son: P. Scipio, Fragm. ap. Gell. 5, 19 (opp. naturalis, a son by birth): filiorum neque naturalem Drusum neque adoptivum Germanicum patria caritate dilexit, Suet. Tib. 52: pater adoptivus, who has adopted one as son (or grandson, v. adoptio), an adoptive father, Dig. 45, 1, 107: frater, soror, etc., a brother, sister, etc., by adoption, not by birth, ib. 23, 2, 12, and 38, 8, 3; so also, familia, the family into which one has been received by adoption, ib. 37, 4, 3: adoptiva sacra, of the family into which one has been adopled (opp. paterna): neque amissis sacris paternis in haec adoptiva venisti, Cic. Dom. 13, 35: nomen, received by adoption (opp. nomen gentile), Suet. Ner. 41: nobilitas, nobility acquired by adoption, Ov. F. 4, 22.
Transf., of the ingrafting of plants (cf. adoptio): fissaque adoptivas accipit arbor opes, bears fruits not natural to it, ingrafted, Ov. Med. Fac. 5; Mart. 13, 46: quae sit adoptivis arbor onusta comis, Pall. de Insit. 20; cf. 144, 160 (cf. Verg. G. 2, 82: Miraturque (arbos) novas frondes et non sua poma).

ăd-opto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to take to one’s self by wish, choice (optando); to choose, select.

  1. I. In gen.: sociam te mihi adopto ad meam salutem, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 78: qui manstutorem me adoptavit bonis, who has chosen me as a guardian of his property, id. Truc. 4, 4, 6: quem sibi illa (provincia) defensorem sui juris adoptavit, Cic. Div. in Caecin. 16 fin.: eum sibi patronum, id ib. 20, 64: quem potius adoptem aut invocem, Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 9: Frater, Pater, adde; Ut cuique est aetas, ita quemque facetus adopta (i. e. adscisce, adjunge, sc. tuo alloquio, Cruqu.), make him by thy greeting a father, brother, etc., i. e. call him, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 55: Etruscas Turnus adoptat opes, strives after, Ov. F. 4, 880.
    Hence: adoptare se alicui, to give or attach one’s self to: qui se potentiae causā Caesaris libertis adoptāsset, Plin. 12, 1, 5, § 12.
  2. II. Esp. as t. t., to take one in the place of a child or grandchild, to adopt (diff. from arrogo; v. adoptio).
    1. A. Lit., constr. with aliquem, also with ab aliquo aliquem (from the real father, a patre naturali), Plaut. Poen. prol. 74 (cf. id. ib. 4, 2, 82): adoptat illum puerum subreptitium sibi filium, id. Men. prol. 60: filium senatorem populum Romanum sibi velle adoptare, Cic. Dom. 14: adoptatus patricius a plebeio, id. Att. 7, 7: is qui hunc minorem Scipionem a Paulo adoptavit, id. Brut. 19, 77: adoptavit eum heredemque fecit ex dodrante, Nep. Att. 5, 2: adoptatus testamento, Suet. Tib. 6: adoptari a se Pisonem pronuntiat, Tac. H. 1, 18: Pisonem pro contione adoptavit, Suet. Galb. 17: quem illa adoptavit, Vulg. Exod. 2, 10.
      With in and acc.: in regnum, Sall. J. 22, 3: in familiam nomenque, Suet. Caes. 83: in successionem, Just. 9, 2.
    2. B. Fig.: servi in bona libertatis nostrae adoptantur, are, as it were, adopted into freedom, are made participants of freedom, Flor. 3, 20; and of ingrafting (cf. adoptivus): venerit insitio: fac ramum ramus adoptet, Ov. R. Am. 195; so Col. 10, 38. Those who were adopted commonly received the family name of the adoptive father, with the ending -anus, e. g. Aemilianus, Pomponianus, etc.
      Hence Cic. says ironic. of one who appropriated to himself the name of another: ipse se adoptat: et C. Stalenus, qui se ipse adoptaverat et de Staleno Aelium fecerat, had changed himself from a Stalenus to an Ælius, Brut. 68, 241; and Vitruv.: Zoilus qui adoptavit cognomen, ut Homeromastix vocitaretur, had himself called, 7, 8. So: ergo aliquod gratum Musis tibi nomen adopta, Mart. 6, 31; in Pliny, very often, adoptare aliquid (also with the addition of nomine suo or in nomen), to give a thing its name: Baetis Oceanum Atlanticum, provinciam adoptans, petit, while it gives to the province the name (Baetica). Plin. 3, 1, 3, § 9: A Zmyrna Hermus campos facit et nomini suo adoptat, id. 5, 29, 31, § 119; so 25, 3, 7, § 22: in nomen, id. 37, 3, 12, § 50; so also Statius, Theb. 7, 259.