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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *skh₁-i(e/o)-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnscīscō''' (present infinitive cōnscīscere, perfect active cōnscīvī or cōnsciī, supine cōnscītum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The archaic ''cōscīscō'' is in Cicero's laws.^(OLD 2012)

+ The perfect infinitive is always ''cōnscīsse''.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|scīscō|t2=to ordain, decree]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|scīscō]] is the inchoative of [[m|la|sciō|t=to know]],^(Wiktionary) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*skije/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*skh₁-i(e/o)-|t=to incise]], “to know” having grown out of “to distinguish, decide”;^(de Vaan 2008) cognate with [[grc|σχάω|tr=skháō|t=to slit open]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it in the ''Miles gloriosus'', of bringing death on oneself some other way.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As a term of public law it is to decree or resolve formally: the old formula for declaring war in Livy has the senate ''cēnsuit, cōnsēnsit, cōnscīvit'' that there should be war, and Cicero's laws speak of what the people order or forbid by vote.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Livy has peoples resolving on war or on flight.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) A letter of Brutus speaks of the deed he had resolved on.^(OLD 2012) Usually with ''sibi'', it is to decree something for oneself, to bring it on oneself, above all death: Lucretius has men bringing death on themselves, and Cicero death by poison.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy has voluntary exile, and Gellius blinding oneself by skill.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of bringing death on oneself.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius, ''sibi lētum cōnscīscere''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, in the language of laws and of suicide by poison.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, in the formula for declaring war.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|decree]], [[m|en|ordain]], resolve upon formally.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(usually with sibi)'' To decree for oneself, bring on oneself;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''mortem sibi cōnscīscere'', to take one's own life.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ascīscō]]

+ * [[cōnsciō]]

+ * [[dēscīscō]]

+ * [[perscīscō]]

+ * [[rescīscō]]

+ * [[scīscō]]

+ * [[sciō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}