reseco Latin · revision 32633

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *sekh₁-ie/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''resecō''' (present infinitive resecāre, perfect active resecuī, supine resectum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Cato and Varro have ''resicō''.^(OLD 2012)

+ The TLL finds no perfect in ''-secu-'';^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Symmachus has ''resecāvī''.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|secō|t2=to cut]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|secō]] to [[itc-pro|*sekaje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*sekh₁-ie/o-|t=to cut off]], comparing [[xum|prusekatu|t=to cut out]], used of the entrails of a victim.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In the OLD's earliest quotation Cato says to cut back a vine when it is two years old.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is first to prune or trim, shorten by cutting.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that classical writers use it mostly figuratively, of curtailing or restraining: Cicero will heal what can be healed and not let what must be cut away remain to ruin the state.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) It is also to cut off at the base: Cicero tells how the Carthaginians cut off Regulus' eyelids and killed him by keeping him awake.^(OLD 2012) A declamation once ascribed to Quintilian uses it of cutting open the vital organs.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it to cut out, root out, curtail, check.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|resect]] comes from its past participle, from the 1650s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of cutting back a vine.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of cutting away evils and of Regulus' eyelids.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1650s – English [[m|en|resect|alt=resect]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To cut back, [[m|en|prune]], trim.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|curtail]], check, restrain; to prune language.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To cut off at the base, sever.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To cut open.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[irresectus]]

+ * [[resecabilis]]

+ * [[resecatio]]

+ * [[resectiō]]

+ * [[resegmen]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[seco|alt=secō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}