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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *sed-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kõːˈsiː.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [konˈsiː.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnsīdō''' (present infinitive cōnsīdere, perfect active cōnsēdī or cōnsīdī, supine cōnsessum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The perfect is ''cōnsēdī'', ''cōnsīdī'' appears in Ennius and in manuscripts of Livy, Tacitus and Gellius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|con-|sīdō|t2=to sit down, settle]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|sīdō]] to [[itc-pro|*sizd-e/o-|t=to sit down]] and [[ine-pro|*si-sd-e/o-|t=to sit down]], a reduplicated present of [[ine-pro|*sed-|t=to sit]], cognate with [[sa|सीदति|tr=sī́dati|t=sits down]] and [[grc|ἵζω|tr=hízō|t=to sit down]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has ''multa bona in pectore cōnsīdunt'', “many good qualities have their seat in the heart”.^(OLD 2012) De Vaan dates it from Varro.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Cōnsīdere'' is “to sit down” (Cicero: ''cōnsēdit ille: conticuī'', “he sat down, I fell silent”), of judges “to sit, hold court” (Caesar of the Druids), and in war “to take up position, encamp” (Caesar: the Nervii had encamped across the river).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Bees and birds “alight” (Cicero: a swarm settled on a horse's mane), ships “come to rest”, settlers “settle, make their home”, and qualities “lodge” in someone.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) It is also “to sink, subside” (Cicero: let the Alps sink down), “to collapse”, “to sink into obscurity”, and of violent motion “to abate” (Ovid: ''ut mare cōnsīdat'').^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “to sit down together, hold council”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''multa bona in pectore cōnsīdunt''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''cōnsēdit ille: conticuī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar: the Nervii ''cōnsēdisse''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid: ''ut mare cōnsīdat''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To sit down; to sit (as a court).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(military)'' To take up position, [[m|en|encamp]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|alight]], come to rest; to settle.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To settle, make one's home; to lodge.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To sink, [[m|en|subside]]; to collapse.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To abate.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cōnsessor]]

+ * [[cōnsessus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sīdō]]

+ * [[sedeō]]

+ * [[resīdō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}