sevoco Latin · revision 33482

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la vocō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈseː.wɔ.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsɛː.vo.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sēvocō''' (present infinitive sēvocāre, perfect active sēvocāvī, supine sēvocātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sē-|vocō|t1=apart|t2=to call]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The earliest quotation in the OLD is from Plautus: ''quid tū tē sōlus ē senātū sēvocās?'', “why do you draw yourself aside from the senate alone?”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it a favourite word of Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Its basic sense is to call someone apart from the others: Caesar writes of calling people aside one by one to encourage them,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Cicero of the plebs being called away again to the Aventine.^(Conte 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy reports that the tribunes made it a capital offence to call the people away to a meeting outside the city.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) It was used figuratively of withdrawing the mind: Cicero writes of separating the mind from the senses, and Catullus says that grief calls him away from the learned maidens.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) In Cicero's ''Prō Quīnctiō'' it means to take for oneself what belongs to a common fund.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it in the ''Aulularia'' and other plays.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it often, literally and of the mind.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it figuratively.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of calling men aside.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of calling the people to a meeting.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it in the ''Metamorphoses''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|call]] someone aside or apart from the rest, to draw aside;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995) (reflexive) to withdraw.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To call the people away to a meeting elsewhere.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # (figuratively) To [[m|en|separate]], [[m|en|withdraw]], remove (especially the mind from something).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|appropriate]] something from a common or public fund.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vocō]]

+ * [[sēdūcō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}