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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=la moveō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sēmōtus''' (feminine sēmōta, neuter sēmōtum, comparative sēmōtior); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as an adjective, it is the past participle [[der|la|sēmoveō|t=to move apart, set aside]],^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) a verb made [[af|la|sē-|moveō|t1=apart|t2=to move]].^(OLD 2012)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan traces the simple verb to [[itc-pro|*mow(a)-]] and [[ine-pro|*m(i̯)euh₁-|t=to move]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Terence already has the participle in ''vōs sēmōtae, nōs sōlī'', “you women aside, we by ourselves”.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler records it first in Lucretius,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of things far off (''longē sēmōta'') and figuratively of a being ''cūrā sēmōtus metūque'', “free from care and fear”.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it means remote, set apart: Caesar has ''sēmōtō ā mīlitibus locō'', “in a place away from the soldiers”,^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913) the ''Bellum Alexandrinum'' speaks of the remote parts of a city,^(Georges 1913) and Horace of things that he sees removed from the earth.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010) Lucretius uses it figuratively, of a nature ''sēmōta ā nostrīs rēbus'', far removed from human affairs,^(Georges 1913) and Lactantius in the sense “different from”.^(Georges 1913) Tacitus applies it to conversation that is private, ''arcāna sēmōtae dictiōnis'', “the secrets of intimate talk”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016) Conte gives the sense “unusual” in the Latin Irenaeus.^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses the participle.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of distance and of freedom from care.^(Köbler 2010)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of a place away from the soldiers.^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of things removed from the earth.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of private conversation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–317 AD – Lactantius uses it in the sense “different”.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|remote|alt=Remote]], [[m|en|distant]], set apart (from).^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010)

+ # Free from (care, fear).^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # Different from, far removed from.^(Georges 1913)

+ # [[m|en|private|alt=Private]], [[m|en|intimate]], confidential.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' Unusual.^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sēmoveō]]

+ * [[moveō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}