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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [seːˈkeː.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [seˈt͡ʃɛː.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sēcēdō''' (present infinitive sēcēdere, perfect active sēcessī, supine sēcessum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|sē-|t=apart]] and [[m|la|cēdō|t=to go]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives ⟨cēdō⟩ from [[itc-pro|*kesde-|t=to go away, avoid]] and, following Lubotsky, [[ine-pro|*ḱyesdʰ-|t=to drive away; go away]], cognate with [[sa|सेधति|tr=sédhati|t=drives away]]; he rejects the old explanation as ⟨*ke⟩ “here” and a root “to sit”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus is its first author,^(Köbler 2010) with ''fugite omnēs, abīte et dē viā sēcēdite'', “run, everyone, go away and get out of the road”, in the ''Curculio''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to draw aside or withdraw, especially to a private place for talk, as in Plautus' ''Asinaria''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Politically it is to secede, of the plebs who left the city in the early Republic, as Cicero's “in the sixteenth year after the kings were expelled they seceded because of the excessive power of the great”, and to dissociate oneself from a cause, as Gellius' citizen who took no side in civil strife.^(OLD 2012)

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+ It is also to withdraw from Rome to the country, for rest or in abandonment of public life, as Valerius Maximus' Metellus Numidicus, who withdrew to Asia.^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short note that Caesar does not use it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it “go away, withdraw, depart, retire, secede, separate”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of getting out of the road.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the secession of the plebs.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius of keeping out of civil strife.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To draw aside, [[m|en|withdraw]]; to go apart (for private talk).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|secede]] (of the plebs); to dissociate oneself.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To retire (to the country), for leisure or from public life.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sēcessiō]]

+ * [[sēcessus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cēdō]]

+ * [[discēdō]]

+ * [[recēdō]]

+ * [[en|secede]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}