subiecto

Forms

subiectō (present infinitive subiectāre, perfect active subiectāvī, supine subiectātum); first conjugation^[1] Varro writes it subiactō.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is from Latin sūbiciō (“to throw under, throw up”) + -tō, a frequentative.^[1][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Pacuvius uses it in a tragedy of waves that throw a ship up from the depths and dash it down.^[1][4][5]

Semantic evolution

Lucretius has it of rocks thrown up, Virgil of the sea casting up black sand from the bottom, and Varro of grain tossed up with winnowing shovels.^[1][2][3] It also meant to put under: in Ovid a nymph slips her hands beneath a body, and Horace speaks of applying the goad to a tired man.^[1][4]

Timeline

• 220–130 BC – Pacuvius uses it of a ship tossed by waves.^[1][5]
• 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of rocks thrown up.^[4][5]
• 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of winnowing.^[1][5]
• 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of sand cast up by the sea.^[4][5]
• 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of hands put under a body.^[1][5]

Meanings

Verb

1. To throw up from below, toss up.^[1][4]
2. To put or apply below.^[1][4]

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
2. ^ a b Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
3. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
4. ^ a b c d e f Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
5. ^ a b c d e f Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de