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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sēdulō''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[m|la|sē|t=apart, without]] with the ablative of [[m|la|dolus|t=guile]], originally “without guile”.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan, following Meiser, traces it to an older ⟨*sē dolōd⟩, with ⟨sē-⟩ from ⟨*sēd-⟩.^(de Vaan 2008) He reconstructs [[m|la|dolus]] as [[itc-pro|*dolo-|t=trick]] and allows an inherited [[ine-pro|*dolh₁-o-|t=pain]] beside the view that it was borrowed from [[grc|δόλος|tr=dólos|t=bait, trick]].^(de Vaan 2008) The derivation from sē dolō goes back to Donatus, Servius, Nonius and Isidore;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short rejected it and preferred the root of [[m|la|sedeō|t=to sit]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Captivi'': “you believe nothing that I tell you sincerely”.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is sincerely or without guile.^(OLD 2012) It soon came to mean with care, diligently or attentively, as in Plautus' “I will help and defend you diligently”, and earnestly or zealously, as in Terence's “I earnestly denied that it was done”.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it a favourite word of Plautus and Terence, most often with [[facio|alt=faciō]] or operam dare;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy has it too.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of speaking sincerely and of helping diligently.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of an earnest denial.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of careful preparations.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|sincerely|alt=Sincerely]], without guile.^(OLD 2012)

+ # With painstaking care, [[m|en|diligently]], attentively; busily.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Earnestly, zealously; on purpose.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sedulus|alt=sēdulus]]

+ * [[sedulitas|alt=sēdulitās]]

+ * [[dolus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}