incessus Latin · revision 31802

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=2nd century BC, Turpilius|origins=la incēdō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪŋˈkɛs.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [in̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛs.sus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''incessus''' ''m'' (genitive incessūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[incēdō|t=to walk, advance]] with the suffix of action nouns [[m|la|-tus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan lists ⟨incēdō⟩ under [[cēdō|t=to go, yield]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*kesdō|alt=*kesd-e/o-|t=to go away]] and, following Lubotsky, to [[ine-pro|*ḱyesdʰ-|alt=*ḱiesdh-|t=to drive away]], cognate with [[sa|सेधति|tr=sedhati|t=drives away]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest example is the comic poet Turpilius: “do you see the Phrygian's walk? how bold he is!”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the act or manner of walking, gait, as in Cicero's rule that standing, walking, sitting and looks should all keep decorum;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder uses it of the power of walking, among the faculties that fail first.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the historians it is the advance of an army, as in Livy's dust raised as if by a great column on the march, and an arrival or approach, or a procession or train (Tacitus).^(OLD 2012) In the land surveyors it is the extension of a line.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 2nd century BC – Turpilius of a confident gait.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of decorous walking.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of an army's advance.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of an arrival and a procession.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Walking; [[m|en|gait]], bearing; the power of walking.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The [[m|en|advance]] of an army; a line of attack.^(OLD 2012)

+ # An arrival, approach; a means of access.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A [[m|en|procession]], train.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(geometry)'' Linear extension.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[incēdō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}