sedo Latin · revision 31481

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sēdō''' (present infinitive sēdāre, perfect active sēdāvī, supine sēdātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from the root of [[sedeō|t=to sit]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan notes that it must first have meant “to make someone sit down, appease”, and derives the root from [[itc-pro|*sed-ē-|t=to be seated]] and [[ine-pro|*sed-|t=to sit]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest quotations are in Plautus, of thirst relieved by Bacchus and of years of misery soothed by present joy.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to make flames, winds or waters subside, as Cicero's storm that dies down, and intransitively of storms to abate, in the historian Gellius.^(OLD 2012) Most often it is to reduce the violence of something, to allay or relieve hunger and thirst, feelings, strife or misfortune: the Capitoline Fasti record a dictator appointed to quell a revolt, and Terence asks his audience to remedy a misfortune by their good sense.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of people it is to calm someone down, as Livy's young men whom the magistrates could hardly restrain.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “soothe, calm, appease, allay, still, assuage”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of quenched thirst and soothed misery.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of remedying a misfortune.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a storm that dies down.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of calming the young men.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make flames, winds or waters subside; of storms, to abate.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|allay|alt=Allay]], relieve, [[m|en|assuage]] hunger, feelings, strife or troubles.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To calm down, [[m|en|appease]] a person.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cōnsēdō]]

+ * [[resēdō]]

+ * [[sēdāmen]]

+ * [[sēdātiō]]

+ * [[sedator]]

+ * [[sēdātus]]

+ * [[sēdātīvus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sedeō]]

+ * [[sēdēs]]

+ * [[sella]]

+ * [[en|sedate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}