obsessio Latin · revision 33307

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *sed-eh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''obsessiō''' ''f'' (genitive obsessiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|obsideō|-tiō|t1=to besiege]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) [[m|la|obsideō]] is a compound of [[m|la|ob-]] and [[m|la|sedeō|t=to sit]],^(Wiktionary) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*sed-ē-|t=to be seated]] and [[ine-pro|*sed-eh₁-|t=to be seated]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|saidid|t=to sit]] and [[xum|sersitu|t=to sit]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of the blockade of the temples, ''obsessio templorum''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the act of besieging, a siege, investment or blockade;^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero also has the blocking of a military road, Caesar the giving up of a blockade, and Suetonius the siege of a camp.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Christian Latin it was used of possession by a demon: Venantius Fortunatus, in his life of Germanus, writes that a woman had resisted her own salvation through obsession.^(TLL) English [[m|en|obsession]] (1510s) first meant the action of besieging; the sense “hostile action of an evil spirit” dates from about 1600.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the blockade of the temples.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of giving up a blockade.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius, of the siege of a camp.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 536–c. 610 AD – Venantius Fortunatus, of possession by a demon.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1510s – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|obsession]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|siege]], investment, [[m|en|blockade]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' [[m|en|obsession|alt=Obsession]] by a demon.^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[obsideō]]

+ * [[obsidiō]]

+ * [[obsessor]]

+ * [[en|obsession]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}