saepio Latin · revision 31551

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la saepēs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsae̯.pi.oː]^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''saepiō''' (present infinitive saepīre, perfect active saepsī, supine saeptum); fourth conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Manuscripts often spell it ''sēp-''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a verb from [[saepēs|t=hedge, fence]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan derives ⟨saepēs⟩ from [[itc-pro|*saip-i-]], perhaps from [[ine-pro|*seh₂-i-|t=to tie]], though a suffix ⟨*-p-⟩ is unknown; he compares [[xum|seples|t=nails]] and [[grc|αἰπύς|tr=aipús|t=steep]], and derives [[saepe|t=often]] from the same word, “closely packed” becoming “often”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who has “so long as you don't make a path across a fenced estate”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to fence in or enclose, also of natural barriers, as Cicero's tomb of Archimedes, fenced and overgrown with briars.^(OLD 2012) In war it is to invest a town with siegeworks or surround with troops: Cicero asks why the senate was surrounded by a ring of armed men.^(OLD 2012) Lucretius uses it of surrounding a glade with hunting nets.^(OLD 2012) It is also to close off a road or exit, and to protect with walls or guards; figuratively one is fenced in by the laws and the fear of the courts.^(OLD 2012) To envelop it is used of the mind of Jupiter enclosed in the caverns of the ether, and in Ennius someone leaves his kingdom clothed in a beggar's robe.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin has it for “hedge or enclose in”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a fenced estate.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of clothing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of hunting nets.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of siegeworks and armed guards.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To surround with a [[m|en|hedge]] or [[m|en|fence]], enclose.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To surround with siegeworks, troops or nets, [[m|en|invest]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To shut in, confine; to close off a road or exit.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To protect by surrounding with walls or guards.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To envelop, wrap; to clothe.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[circumsaepiō]]

+ * [[cōnsaepiō]]

+ * [[dissaepiō]]

+ * [[insaepiō]]

+ * [[insaeptus]]

+ * [[intersaepiō]]

+ * [[obsaepiō]]

+ * [[praesaepiō]]

+ * [[saepīmen]]

+ * [[saepīmentum]]

+ * [[saeptiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[saepēs]]

+ * [[saeptum]]

+ * [[saepe]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}