seorsum Latin · revision 32905

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la vertō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''seorsum''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''sorsum'' and has a by-form ''seorsus''; in comedy and usually in Lucretius it is scanned as two syllables.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is often wrongly written ''seorsim''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the adverb of [[seorsus]] “separate”, contracted from ⟨*sēvorsus⟩: [[m|la|sē-|t=apart]] with the participle of [[verto|alt=vertō]] “to turn”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists it among the words with the prefix in its short form ⟨se-⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) who has someone wish a person shut up separately in a little room.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is separately, distinctly, apart from the rest, often with ''ab'': Terence thanks everyone and someone separately besides, Cato wants the best hay stored apart, and Livy has the Aequi and the Volsci fortify separate camps.^(OLD 2012) With ''ab'' it also means otherwise, differently, as in Plautus' I think differently from you.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Lucretius uses it with a plain ablative, of the eye seeing nothing apart from the body.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short find it mostly before the classical period: not in Caesar, Virgil or Horace, and in Cicero only once, in his definition of ''sēditiō'' as citizens going apart to different sides.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it aside, apart, particularly or privately.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of shutting someone up apart.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of thanking someone separately.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of storing hay apart.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero's definition of sedition.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|separately|alt=Separately]], [[m|en|apart]], distinctly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # With ''ab'', apart from; otherwise, differently from.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[seorsus]]

+ * [[verto|alt=vertō]]

+ * [[separatim|alt=sēparātim]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}