sudis Latin · revision 32404

+ {{infobox|confidence=unknown|attested=116–27 BC, Varro}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sudis''' ''f'' (genitive sudis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The nominative singular is found only in Pliny the Elder.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is unknown.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Varro, who uses it of a fish.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a pointed stick or stake, as the four-split stakes Virgil plants in the ground, and as a weapon: Caesar has the Gauls driven off with slings and stakes.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Juvenal uses it of the spikes standing up on the back of a strange fish.^(OLD 2012) Varro's fish named after a stake is probably the pike.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of a fish.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of stakes used as weapons.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of stakes planted in a field.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A pointed stick, [[m|en|stake]], pile; a stake used as a weapon.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A sharp projection, [[m|en|spike]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A fish, probably the [[m|en|pike]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein classes sudēs with [[trudis|alt=trudēs]] and [[rudis]] as sticks for thrusting, as against [[fustis]] and [[ferula]] for striking and [[scipio|alt=scīpiō]] and [[baculum|alt=baculus]] for walking.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}