sata Latin · revision 32728

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=ine-pro *sh₁-to-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsa.ta]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsaː.ta]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sata''' ''n pl'' (genitive satōrum); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the neuter plural, used as a noun, of [[m|la|satus|t=sown]], the participle of [[sero#1|alt=serō]] “to sow”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces that verb to [[itc-pro|*si-se/o-|t=to sow]] and its participle to [[itc-pro|*sato-|t=sown]] and [[ine-pro|*sh₁-to-]], comparing [[lt|sė́ti|t=to sow]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short first quote it as a noun from Virgil's ''Eclogues'', ''Georgics'' and ''Aeneid''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It names cultivated plants, crops, standing grain, as in Virgil and Ovid.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also plants in general: Quintilian says Aristotle investigated the nature of all animals and plants.^(OLD 2012) In poetry it can be offspring.^(OLD 2012) The OLD notes that the singular is also found, and Wiktionary adds the sense farmland, fields.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of crops.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of plants in general.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(plural)'' Cultivated plants, [[m|en|crops]], standing grain.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Plants in general.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(poetic)'' [[m|en|offspring|alt=Offspring]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Farmland, fields.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sero#1|alt=serō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}