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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *skh₁-i(e/o)-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈskiː.tɛ], [ˈskiː.teː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈʃiː.te], [ˈʃiː.te]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''scītē''' (comparative scītius, superlative scītissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|scītus|-ē|t1=knowing, clever]], the participle of [[m|la|scīscō|t=to learn, decree]] used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces the base [[m|la|sciō]] to [[itc-pro|*skije/o-|t=to know]] and [[ine-pro|*skh₁-i(e/o)-|t=to incise]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has someone drink down wine nearly neat most expertly.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means with practical knowledge, expertly, and cleverly, neatly, ingeniously: in Plautus a trick is praised as cleverly done.^(OLD 2012) In colloquial speech it is nicely, handsomely, as Plautus' sheep that is shorn too nicely.^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary also gives wisely, suitably and elegantly.^(Wiktionary) Köbler finds it in Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, expertly and cleverly.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Expertly, knowingly, [[m|en|shrewdly]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|cleverly|alt=Cleverly]], neatly, ingeniously; suitably.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(colloquial)'' Nicely, handsomely, [[m|en|elegantly]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sciō]]

+ * [[scīscō]]

+ * [[scītāmenta]]

+ * [[scītātiō]]

+ * [[scītor]]

+ * [[scītulus]]

+ * [[scītum]]

+ * [[scītus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}