sicco Latin · revision 31561

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=la siccus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsɪk.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsik.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''siccō''' (present infinitive siccāre, perfect active siccāvī, supine siccātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a verb from [[siccus|t=dry]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan finds the origin of ⟨siccus⟩ uncertain: it is compared with [[mga|sesc|t=dry, barren]] and [[ae|hišku-|t=dry]], perhaps [[ine-pro|*si-sk-u-|t=dry]], but how that would give ⟨*sikko-⟩ is unclear.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates ⟨siccus⟩ from Cato,^(de Vaan 2008) who also has the verb: the olive must be properly ripened and well dried, and, impersonally, “when it has rained and dried up”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to dry, of things and of the weather, and to stanch a wound: Virgil has wounds dried with water and dark blood dried with a robe.^(OLD 2012) Of waters it is to dry up by heat, as Lucretius' wind and sun, and to drain marshes, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) In medicine it is to rid the body of excess humours.^(OLD 2012) Horace uses it of draining cups, and Virgil of ewes whose udders are milked dry twice a day.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin has it for dry up, make dry.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of drying olives.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of the sun drying up waters.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of draining marshes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of draining cups.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|dry]]; to stanch a wound or blood.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To dry up waters; to [[m|en|drain]] marshes.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To desiccate;^(OLD 2012) ''(medicine)'' to rid of excess humours.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To drain a cup, empty; to milk or suck dry; to drink up.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[assiccō]]

+ * [[dēsiccō]]

+ * [[exsiccō]]

+ * [[insiccātus]]

+ * [[persiccatus]]

+ * [[praesicco]]

+ * [[siccabilis]]

+ * [[siccaneus]]

+ * [[siccātiō]]

+ * [[siccatiuus]]

+ * [[siccatorius]]

+ * [[siccēscō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[siccus]]

+ * [[siccitās]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}