sarcio Latin · revision 32700

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *sr̥k-ie/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsar.ki.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsar.t͡ʃi.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sarciō''' (present infinitive sarcīre, perfect active sarsī, supine sartum); fourth conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*sark-je/o-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*sr̥k-ie/o-|t=to make good, emend]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[hit|šarni(n)k-|t=to compensate, replace]] and [[grc|ἕρκος|tr=hérkos|t=fence, enclosure]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) The OLD gives the Hittite comparison with a “perhaps”, and Lewis & Short call the origin doubtful.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Festus explains it as to make whole.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) in whose ''Mostellaria'' someone feels he cannot repair his house.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to mend or repair: Cato has baskets mended and pitched, and old ropes and patchwork, and Pliny the Elder cracked jars mended.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In surgery it is to repair a defect, and Scribonius Largus has a wound stitched.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively Virgil has bees repairing the ruins of their fallen race, and Horace asks whether a badly mended friendship can hold.^(OLD 2012) It is also to make good a loss: Caesar wants to retrieve the day's setback, and Livy tells soldiers their losses will be made good by plunder.^(OLD 2012) Cicero speaks of making up for a wrong by honouring a dead man.^(OLD 2012) Festus reports that in the Twelve Tables ''sarcītō'' meant “let him pay for the damage”.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it repair, restore, make good, correct.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of repairing a house.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of mending baskets.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of retrieving a setback.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of bees repairing their race.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of losses made good.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|mend]], [[m|en|patch]], repair; in surgery, to repair, stitch.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To make good a loss or damage; to retrieve a defeat; to make up for a fault; to restore a sum.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exsarciō]]

+ * [[insarcio]]

+ * [[resarciō]]

+ * [[sarcīmen]]

+ * [[sarcina]]

+ * [[sarcinātor]]

+ * [[sarcinātrix]]

+ * [[sarcītor]]

+ * [[sartor]]

+ * [[sartrix]]

+ * [[sartūra]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}