saucio Latin · revision 33934

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsau̯.ki.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsaːu̯.t͡ʃi.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sauciō''' (present infinitive sauciāre, perfect active sauciāvī, supine sauciātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|saucius|-ō|t1=wounded]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it first: in the ''Rudens'' someone asks why he should not wound a man with rods until he has had his fill.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to wound or hurt a person or body;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it classical but rare and absent from Caesar.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero writes that Rubrius was wounded in the crowd, and Sallust of someone wounded by the blow of a javelin.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also used of cutting plants as if wounding them, or of cutting into the ground: Cato warns not to damage the roots.^(OLD 2012) Stelten gives "wound, hurt, injure" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of beating with rods.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of damaging roots.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of Rubrius wounded in a crowd.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust of a javelin wound.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|wound]], hurt, gash.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To cut, gash (a plant); to cut into, [[m|en|furrow]] (the ground).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cōnsauciō]]

+ * [[sauciātiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[saucius]]

+ * [[vulnerō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}