suadeo Latin · revision 18104

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *sweh₂d-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈsʷaː.de.oː], [suˈaː.de.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈsʷaː.de.o], [suˈaː.de.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''suādeō''' (present infinitive suādēre, perfect active suāsī, supine suāsum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Lucretius scans ''sŭādent'' as three syllables.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*swādeje-|t=to render agreeable]], [[inh|ine-pro|*su(o)h₂d-eie-|t=to make tasty]], a causative of the root of [[m|la|suāvis|t=sweet, pleasant]]; that causative would regularly have given ⟨*sōdē-⟩, so the root form of the adjective was probably brought into the verb.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) The sense “to recommend” comes from “to make sweet, make agreeable”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[grc|ἁνδάνω|tr=handánō|t=to please]], [[grc|ἡδύς|tr=hēdús|t=sweet]], [[sa|स्वदति|tr=svádati]] and [[ang|swēte|t=sweet]].^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has ''modo quod suāsit, id dissuādet'', “what he urged just now, he now advises against”, and makes a couch ''malitiam … suādeat'', “suggest mischief”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Suādēre'' is “to recommend, urge, advise” a course of action, with a dative of the person, ''ut'', ''nē'' or an infinitive.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) In public life it is “to speak in favour of” a law or proposal (Cicero: ''Catō lēgem suādēns'', “Cato, speaking for the law”).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Things can be its subject, “to suggest, prompt”, and with an accusative and infinitive it is “to try to persuade that”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “to persuade, exhort, advise, urge, suggest, recommend, propose”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''modo quod suāsit, id dissuādet''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius scans it as three syllables.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''Catō lēgem suādēns''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|recommend]], [[m|en|advise]], urge.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To speak in favour of, [[m|en|advocate]] (a law or proposal).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To suggest, prompt (of things).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To try to [[m|en|persuade]] (that).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cōnsuādeō]]

+ * [[dissuādeō]]

+ * [[persuādeō]]

+ * [[suādēla]]

+ * [[suādibilis]]

+ * [[suādus]]

+ * [[suāsiō]]

+ * [[suāsor]]

+ * [[suāsum]]

+ * [[suāsus]]

+ * [[benesuādus]]

+ * [[suādenter]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[suāvis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}