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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [ˈsɛ.ɡɛs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsɛː.d͡ʒes]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''seges''' ''f'' (genitive segetis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
+ Cato and Varro have an ablative ''segetī''.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ The OLD calls the origin doubtful.^(OLD 2012) De Vaan derives it from [[itc-pro|*seg-et-|t=seed, sown land]], from [[ine-pro|*seg-e/o-|t=to adhere, fasten]], cognate with [[cy|heu|t=to sow, strew]] and [[sa|सजति|tr=sajati|t=adheres, hangs on]];^(de Vaan 2008) Schumacher explains the shift to “sow” through “imprint, put in”.^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler sets up a root ⟨*seg-⟩ “to sow”, after Pokorny.^(Köbler 2010) Lewis & Short suggested a root ⟨sag-⟩ “to fill, feed”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The Twelve Tables forbid luring away another man's crop by magic: ''neve alienam segetem pellexeris''.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It is a field of standing corn or another crop, and the crop itself, and also arable land, as Cato says the bailiff must not cheat the land.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Figuratively it is any crop or produce, a result or profit, and a thick growth or multitude.^(Wiktionary) De Vaan connects it with ''Sēia'', the goddess of the corn at sowing time.^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ Church Latin glosses it “corn, harvest, crop, produce”.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 450 BC – The Twelve Tables on luring away another's crop.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of arable land.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A field of standing [[m|en|corn]]; a [[m|en|crop]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)
+ # Arable land, soil.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(figurative)'' Produce, result, profit; a thick growth, multitude.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[amsegetes]]
+ * [[segetalis]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}