saeptum Latin · revision 33253

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsae̯p.tũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsɛp.tum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''saeptum''' ''n'' (genitive saeptī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''sēptum'', and is usually plural.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as a noun, it is the neuter participle [[der|la|saepiō|t=to fence in, enclose]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) That verb comes from [[m|la|saepēs|t=hedge, fence]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*saip-i-]]; a link with [[ine-pro|*seh₂-i-|t=to tie]] is tempting, he says, but the suffix it needs is unknown.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010) Lucretius says that smell does not pass through stone walls, ''saxea saepta''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is an enclosed space, especially a fold or paddock for animals, as in Varro;^(OLD 2012) Varro also has a game preserve enclosing about four thousand paces, and Columella a fish enclosure.^(OLD 2012) The plural ''saepta'' named the voting enclosures in the Campus Martius, into which Cicero says a man burst, and Cicero speaks of a tribune attacked with fragments of their wooden fence.^(OLD 2012) It is also a surrounding wall or fence,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) a sluice or weir in Ulpian,^(OLD 2012) and in Celsus a partition in the body, the diaphragm.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin has it as fence, wall, enclosure, hedge.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius, of stone walls.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of folds and a game preserve.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the voting enclosures.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus, of the diaphragm.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian, of a sluice.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|enclosure]], [[m|en|fold]] for animals;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) a game preserve; an enclosure for fish.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(plural)'' The voting enclosures in the [[m|en|Campus Martius]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A surrounding wall or [[m|en|fence]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A barrier: a [[m|en|sluice]], weir;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ''(medicine)'' a partition, the [[m|en|diaphragm]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[saeptatus]]

+ * [[saeptuōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[saepiō]]

+ * [[saepēs]]

+ * [[praesaepe]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}