sarrio Latin · revision 33391

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *sr̥s-ie/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsar.ri.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsar.ri.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sarriō''' (present infinitive sarrīre, perfect active sarruī or sarrīvī, supine sarrītum); fourth conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The OLD, de Vaan and Georges head it ''sāriō'', and Georges says the spelling with one ⟨r⟩ is that of the best manuscripts and of inscriptions.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Georges 1913)

+ Cato already writes ''sarr-''.^(de Vaan 2008)

+ The perfect is ''sarruī'' in Cato and ''sarrīvī'' in Columella.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*sars-je/o-|t=to hoe, weed]], [[inh|ine-pro|*sr̥s-ie/o-|t=to cut off, weed]], in de Vaan's reconstruction; he leaves open whether ⟨sāriō⟩ or ⟨sarriō⟩ is the older spelling, and notes that the best argument for the double ⟨rr⟩ is a possible link with [[m|la|serra|t=saw]].^(de Vaan 2008) He also suggests that the root may be [[ine-pro|*ser-|t=to cut off]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|सृणी|tr=sr̥ṇī́-|t=sickle]] and [[kho|harraa-|t=saw]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Köbler instead suggests a Gaulish origin, with a question mark.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who has ''semper occant prius quam sariunt rustici'', “farmers always harrow before they hoe”.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a farming word:^(Lewis & Short 1879) intransitively, to hoe, and transitively, to hoe the soil or weed the crops, as in Varro's man who came to weed my cornfields.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cato prescribes hoeing grain twice, Pliny the Elder hoeing beans and an impersonal ''saritur'', “the hoeing is done”, and Martial uses it of a rock.^(Georges 1913) The Vulgate has it in Isaiah.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Stelten gives it in Ecclesiastical Latin as to weed or cultivate.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, “to hoe”.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato writes ''sarr-'' and prescribes hoeing grain.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of weeding cornfields.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella, the perfect ''sarrīvī''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To [[m|en|hoe]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To [[m|en|weed]] (crops); to hoe or dig over (land).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sarculum]]

+ * [[sarrītor]]

+ * [[sartor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[serra]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}