surripio Latin · revision 32686

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁r̥p-i-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sʊrˈrɪ.pi.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [surˈriː.pi.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''surripiō''' (present infinitive surripere, perfect active surripuī, supine surreptum); third (-iō variant) conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also written ''subripiō'', and contracted ''surpiō''; forms in ''-rupiō'' are frequent in Plautus.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Plautus has the s-future ''surrepsit''.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sub-|rapiō|t2=to seize, snatch]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|rapiō]] to [[itc-pro|*rap-i-|t=to seize]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁r̥p-i-|t=to seize]], comparing [[grc|ἐρέπτομαι|tr=eréptomai|t=to devour, snatch away]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) in whose ''Asinaria'' a man is asked whether he has already stolen the cloak to give to a prostitute.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to steal, filch, also of abstract things: in the ''Casina'' someone wants to steal that service from the old man.^(OLD 2012) It is to steal a child, kidnap: the prologue of the ''Captivi'' tells of a slave who carried off a boy of four.^(OLD 2012) Horace has it of snatching someone from death.^(OLD 2012) It is also to take or remove by stealth: Pliny the Elder has foals secretly put to mares' udders in the dark.^(OLD 2012) Plautus has it of doing something unseen, as stealing time from the legion, and reflexively of stealing away to someone.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it to take by stealth, steal away.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of stealing a cloak, kidnapping a child and stealing away.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius has the form ''surp-''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of snatching from death.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of foals put to mares by stealth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|steal]], filch, take wrongfully; to [[m|en|kidnap]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To remove from where it belongs; to snatch away.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To take or do by stealth;^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995) ''(reflexive)'' to steal away.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[subreptīcius]]

+ * [[subreptiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rapio|alt=rapiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}