discessus Latin · revision 31266

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=ine-pro *ḱiesdʰ-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''discessus''' ''m'' (genitive discessūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|discēdō|t=to go apart, depart]] with the suffix [[m|la|-tus]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The verb is [[m|la|dis-|t=apart]] and [[m|la|cēdō|t=to go, withdraw]], which de Vaan, following Lubotsky, derives from [[itc-pro|*kesd-e/o-|t=to go away, avoid]] and [[ine-pro|*ḱiesdʰ-|t=to drive away; to go away]], cognate with [[sa|सेधति|tr=sedhati|t=drives away]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Varro on,^(TLL) who speaks of the separation of soul and body;^(OLD 2012) Köbler gives Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a separation or parting, also absence, as in Varro, and the splitting apart of something, as Cicero's ''caelī discessus'', the opening of the sky in lightning.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is departure or going away, as Varro's interval between the doctor's leaving and the undertaker's coming, of armies marching off, and in Cicero's letters going away on holiday.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “removal, departure, separation”,^(Stelten 1995) and medieval Latin uses it for ''dēcessus'', death.^(Niermeyer 1976) Köbler finds it in councils, charters, Walahfrid and Thietmar.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of the separation of soul and body.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the opening of the sky and of a holiday.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A going apart, separation, parting; absence; an opening.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A [[m|en|departure]], going away; a marching off; a departure on holiday.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|death|alt=Death]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[discēdō]]

+ * [[cēdō]]

+ * [[discessiō]]

+ * [[dēcessus]]

+ * [[abitus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}