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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *mewh₁-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [sʊmˈmɔ.we.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [subˈmɔː.ve.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''submoveō''' (present infinitive submovēre, perfect active submōvī, supine submōtum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ It is also spelled ''summoveō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ Horace has a pluperfect subjunctive ''submōssēs''.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is formed [[af|la|sub-|moveō|t2=to move]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨moveō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*mow(a)-]] and [[ine-pro|*mewh₁-|t=to move]], and compares [[hit|mau-|t=to fall]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's first example is a fragment of Plautus, of driving off the enemy: ''sī summoventur hostēs''.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It is to move people out of a place, especially to clear the crowd from the path of a magistrate, as Varro's aediles with their attendants, to keep someone from entering, and to remove animals from a flock (Columella).^(OLD 2012) Of things it is to push aside, as Virgil's clouds driven off, to ward off heat or light, and to set back, as a deep cave.^(OLD 2012) It is to drive enemies from a position, to banish or dismiss, to debar from something, and in law to bar from a claim (Gaius); Cicero has it of deterring men from crime, and Livy of a war kept away from Rome.^(OLD 2012)
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+ Church Latin glosses it “move away, put away, dispel”.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of driving off enemies.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of removing persons and deterring.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of clearing the way for magistrates.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of clouds driven away.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 140–180 AD – Gaius of barring a legal claim.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To move (persons) out of the way, clear (the crowd for a magistrate); to keep off.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To push aside, [[m|en|remove]]; to ward off (heat, cold); to set back.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)
+ # To drive off (enemies), dislodge.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|banish]], expel; to dismiss.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To debar, exclude, ''(law)'' to bar (from a claim); to [[m|en|deter]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To ward off, [[m|en|dispel]] (a danger).^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[moveō]]
+ * [[āmoveō]]
+ * [[removeō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}