secessus Latin · revision 31878

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=ine-pro *ḱiesdʰ-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sēcessus''' ''m'' (genitive sēcessūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sēcēdō|-tus|t1=to withdraw]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The verb [[m|la|sēcēdō]] is formed from [[m|la|sē-|t=apart]] and [[m|la|cēdō|t=to go, withdraw]],^(Wiktionary) which de Vaan, after Lubotsky, traces to [[itc-pro|*kesd-e/o-|t=to go away, avoid]] and [[ine-pro|*ḱiesdʰ-|t=to drive away; go away]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short note that it is not found before Augustus;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil has “there is a place in a deep recess”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its main sense is withdrawal into seclusion, as Ovid's “poems seek the writer's seclusion and leisure”, and especially withdrawal from Rome to the country, as Seneca's summer retreat.^(OLD 2012) Tacitus calls Tiberius at Rhodes an exile under the name of retirement.^(Lewis & Short 1879) By metonymy it is a secluded place or retreat, as in Seneca and Valerius Maximus.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it of the departure of birds and Gellius of the mind's withdrawal from the body.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Jerome uses it of a privy,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and in Medieval Latin it means a privy and also death.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a deep recess.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of the seclusion poets need.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of a summer retreat.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of Tiberius' retirement at Rhodes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 383–419/420 AD – Jerome of a privy.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|withdrawal|alt=Withdrawal]], departure; [[m|en|seclusion]], retirement, especially to the country.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A secluded place, [[m|en|retreat]], recess.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' A [[m|en|privy]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Death.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[secedo|alt=sēcēdō]]

+ * [[cedo|alt=cēdō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}