sicut Latin · revision 18180

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la sīc, la ut}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈsiː.kʊt]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈsiː.kut]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sīcut''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ A longer form ''sīcutī'' is less frequent but classical.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ The final ''-i'' of ''sīcutī'' is short in Lucilius.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|sīc|ut|t1=thus, so|t2=as, how]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) who has ''haec sunt sīcut praedīcō'', “these things are as I say”, and ''sīcut dīxī, faciam'', “I will do as I said”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Sīcut'' is “in the same way as, just as”, with or without a correlative ''sīc'' or ''ita''; it can have a concessive force, “while … yet”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) It introduces an example or simile, “just as (for instance)”, and is used in parenthesis, “as indeed (is the case)”, “as I have said”.^(OLD 2012) It also describes an unchanged state (''sīcut erant signātae'', “sealed just as they were”), and with the subjunctive means “just as if”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “as, even as, just as, since, like”.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it also means “since”, “in so far as” and “as, as being”.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''haec sunt sīcut praedīcō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius has ''sīcutī'' with a short final vowel.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust uses it with the subjunctive, “as if”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Just as, in the same way as, like.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # While … yet (concessive).^(OLD 2012)

+ # Just as (for instance), introducing an example or [[m|en|simile]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # As indeed; as (I have said).^(OLD 2012)

+ # Just as (it was), unchanged.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Just as if (with the subjunctive).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Since; in so far as.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sīc]]

+ * [[ut]]

+ * [[velut]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}