seco Latin · revision 2980

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=Naevius|origins=ine-pro *sekh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈsɛ.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈsɛː.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''secō''' (present infinitive secāre, perfect active secuī, supine sectum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*sekaje/o-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*sekh₁-ie/o-|t=to cut off]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Cognate with [[xum|prusekatu|t=let him cut out]], used of the entrails of a sacrificial animal,^(de Vaan 2008) [[cu|сѣщи|tr=sěšti|t=to cut]]^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) and [[ang|saga|t=saw]].^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012) De Vaan also compares [[hit|šākk-|t=to know, pay attention to]], with a different meaning.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Naevius onwards.^(de Vaan 2008) In Plautus one character tells another, “take a knife, cut your finger or your ear”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to [[m|en|cut]] or sever, to cut up timber or meat, to cut off a part, and to make an incision.^(OLD 2012) Cicero used it in philosophy of things that can be cut and divided without end.^(OLD 2012) In medicine it meant to operate on or [[m|en|amputate]],^(Simpson 1959)^(Wiktionary) and it was used for castrating.^(Simpson 1959)^(Wiktionary) Figuratively it meant to wound or hurt.^(Simpson 1959)

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+ Poets used it of ships and birds that cleave the water or the air, and of a road cut through the land.^(OLD 2012) Gellius reports that the Twelve Tables let creditors cut up the body of a condemned debtor, ''secare'' and divide it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It survives as Italian ''segare'', French ''scier'' and Spanish and Portuguese ''segar'', and Italian later borrowed ''secare''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it for cutting a finger.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it for cutting timber.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of matter that can be cut without end.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius discusses the Twelve Tables' rule on cutting up a debtor.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|cut]], sever.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To cut up, slice, chop.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To cut off, detach.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To make an [[m|en|incision]] in, gash.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(medicine)'' To operate on, amputate.^(Simpson 1959)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|castrate]].^(Simpson 1959)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To wound, hurt.^(Simpson 1959)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To cleave (water, air); to plough.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To cut (a road or path).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[circumsecō]]

+ * [[cōnsecō]]

+ * [[dēsecō]]

+ * [[dissecō]]

+ * [[exsecō]]

+ * [[īnsecō]]

+ * [[īnsectus]]

+ * [[intersecō]]

+ * [[persecō]]

+ * [[praesecō]]

+ * [[prōsecō]]

+ * [[resecō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sciō]]

+ * [[sexus]]

+ * [[signum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}