suppedito Latin · revision 31435

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sʊpˈpɛ.dɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [supˈpɛː.di.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''suppeditō''' (present infinitive suppeditāre, perfect active suppeditāvī, supine suppeditātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''subpeditō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is uncertain.^(Wiktionary) The OLD takes it apparently from [[m|la|sub-|t=under]] and [[m|la|pēs|t=foot]], with the plural ⟨pedes⟩ “foot soldiers”, and the verb suffix [[m|la|-ō]], first a military metaphor like [[m|la|subministrō|t=to supply]].^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short suggest that it stands for an unrecorded frequentative ⟨suppetītō⟩ of [[m|la|suppetō|t=to be at hand]];^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary gives both views, the second with voicing of /t/ to /d/.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has “so joy comes up to support joy” in the ''Trinummus'', and of money for a lover's needs in the ''Asinaria'';^(OLD 2012) Köbler too gives Plautus.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Used intransitively with a dative, it is first to come up as a support or reinforcement, as in Plautus, and to come to someone's aid with resources, as Terence's “if I go on supplying his expenses”.^(OLD 2012) Of resources it is to be available when needed, as Lucilius' “if the money holds out”, and of a person to have the means for something or be equal to a task, as Plautus' slave who cannot keep up with the work.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lucretius asks where the rivers find their supply.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Used transitively it is to make available or supply what is needed, as Plautus' “so that you can supply the costs of luxury”, with abstract objects such as leisure in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', and with an accusative of the person and an ablative of the thing, as Cicero's “the things we are supplied with”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it “give abundantly, furnish”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of support and of paying for luxury.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of meeting someone's expenses.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius of money holding out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of the supply of rivers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To come up as a [[m|en|reinforcement]]; to come to the aid (of).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To be available, be in [[m|en|abundance|alt=abundance]]; to suffice, be adequate (to).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To [[m|en|supply]], furnish, provide.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[suppeditātiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[suppetō]]

+ * [[subministrō]]

+ * [[pēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}