sicubi Latin · revision 33933

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *kʷu-dʰi}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsiː.kʊ.biː], [ˈsiː.kʊ.bɪ]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsiː.ku.bi]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sīcubī̆''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a compound of [[m|la|sī|t=if]] and ⟨cubi⟩, the older form of [[m|la|ubī|t=where]] kept after a prefix, as in [[m|la|alicubi|t=somewhere]] and [[m|la|nēcubi]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|ubī]] to [[itc-pro|*kwu-þ/fei|t=where]] and [[ine-pro|*kʷu-dʰi|t=where]], cognate with [[osc|puf|t=where]] and [[sa|कुह|tr=kúha|t=where]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan finds it first in Cato.^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler dates it from Terence,^(Köbler 2010) who has it in the ''Eunuchus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means if at any place, if anywhere, and wherever;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it rare but classical.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it in the ''Tusculan Disputations'', in the speech for Sestius, of anywhere that Gellius turns up, and in his letters.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Stelten gives "wheresoever, if in any place" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato.^(de Vaan 2008)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence in the ''Eunuchus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of wherever Gellius appears.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Conjunction===

+ # If anywhere, if at any place; [[m|en|wherever]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ubī]]

+ * [[alicubi]]

+ * [[nēcubi]]

+ * [[sīcunde]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}