subiaceo Latin · revision 33444

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=1st century AD, Columella|origins=la iaceō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sʊbˈja.ke.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [subˈjaː.t͡ʃe.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''subiaceō''' (present infinitive subiacēre, perfect active subiacuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sub-|iaceō|t1=under|t2=to lie]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains the simple verb as the stative counterpart of [[m|la|iaciō|t=to throw]], first “to be thrown down”, then “to lie”; it goes back to [[itc-pro|*jak-ē-|t=to lie down]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short call it post-Augustan;^(Lewis & Short 1879) it is found in Columella, who says that a field lies below a building,^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) and in Pliny the Elder.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to lie under or near something: Pliny the Elder uses it of grain lying under roof tiles,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Curtius of rocks lying below,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Pliny the Younger of a forecourt lying under the windows of his villa,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) and Seneca of a river at the foot of a mountain.^(OLD 2012) It also meant to lie exposed to something, as Columella's part of a meadow open to the west wind.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Figuratively, in Quintilian, it is to come under a heading, of the questions that belong to one kind of case,^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) and in Apuleius to be subject or exposed to something, as the poor are to the power of the rich.^(Georges 1913) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to lie under, to be subject to and to belong to.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of a field below a building.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of things lying underneath.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of what comes under a heading.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it in the sense “be subject to”.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|lie]] underneath; to be placed below.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To lie at the foot or edge of, to lie near.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To form an underlying feature.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To lie [[m|en|exposed]] (to).^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To come under the heading (of), belong (to).^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To be [[m|en|subject]] (to).^(Georges 1913)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[subiacēns]]

+ * [[subiacentia]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[adiaceō]]

+ * [[circumiaceō]]

+ * [[iaceō]]

+ * [[interiaceō]]

+ * [[obiaceō]]

+ * [[praeiaceō]]

+ * [[subteriaceō]]

+ * [[superiaceō]]

+ * [[subiciō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}