successio Latin · revision 33178

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *ḱiesdʰ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sʊkˈkɛs.si.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [sutˈt͡ʃɛs.si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''successiō''' ''f'' (genitive successiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|succēdō|-tiō|t1=to come after, succeed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) [[m|la|succēdō]] is a compound of [[m|la|sub-]] and [[m|la|cēdō#1|t=to go, withdraw]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*kesd-e/o-|t=to go away, avoid]], following Lubotsky's link with [[ine-pro|*ḱiesdʰ-|t=to drive away; go away]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler finds it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who says in the ''De finibus'' that the removal of pain brings about the succession of pleasure.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it mostly post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is above all succession to an office, throne or property: Brutus writes of a man claiming Antony's place as reward for crushing him, Caelius of Pompey being asked about the succession to Caesar, and Pliny the Elder of Nero's succession as emperor.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) By metonymy it is a line of successors, as Pliny the Elder's art not kept up by famous or continuous successors.^(OLD 2012) In Medieval Latin it is lineage, descent, and the generations to come.^(Niermeyer 1976) Stelten gives “succession, advance, progress, issue”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|succession]], first in the sense of succeeding someone by inheritance, dates from the early 14th century, from Old French and directly from Latin.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of pleasure succeeding pain.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of successors in an art.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Medieval Latin – Lineage, descent.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ * early 14th century – English [[m|en|succession]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A coming into the place of another, [[m|en|succession]] to an office, throne or property.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # The replacement of one thing by another.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(collective)'' [[m|en|successor|alt=Successors]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|lineage|alt=Lineage]], descent; future generations.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[succēdō]]

+ * [[successor]]

+ * [[successus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}