exseco Latin · revision 32778

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *sekh₁-ie/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɛks.se.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exsecō''' (present infinitive exsecāre, perfect active exsecuī, supine exsectum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''execō'', ''exsicō'' and ''exicō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus and Cato have ''-icō'',^(OLD 2012) and Cato the future perfect ''exsecāveris''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|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 (the entrails)]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first quotations are in Plautus: in the ''Rudens'' a man is told to go into the marsh and cut reeds while it is fine, and a fragment speaks of cutting limbs with a saw.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to cut out or off, remove by cutting: Cicero has cutting away diseased parts, cutting out a plague like a tumour of the state, and cutting out a tongue.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also to make a cut in.^(OLD 2012) It means to castrate: Cicero recounts the myth that Caelus was castrated by his son Saturn.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of cutting reeds.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of cutting out diseased parts and of castration.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To cut out or off, remove by cutting.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To make a cut in; to make (an opening) by cutting.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|castrate]], [[m|en|geld]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exsecatio]]

+ * [[exsectiō]]

+ * [[exsector]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[seco|alt=secō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}