suppliciter Latin · revision 33936

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la supplex}}

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+ ==Forms==

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|supplex|-ter|t1=suppliant]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The OLD derives [[m|la|supplex]] probably from ⟨*sub-placos⟩, related to [[m|la|plācō|t=to appease]] and [[m|la|placeō|t=to please]], meaning "bringing peace-offerings";^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary instead derives it from [[m|la|supplicō|t=to pray, beseech]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in the speech for Flaccus speaks of answering humbly and submissively.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means in an attitude of humble entreaty, suppliantly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Cicero uses it in his speeches and in ''De oratore'', Caesar uses it, and so does Suetonius in his lives of Augustus and Tiberius.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In poetry Virgil, Horace and Ovid use it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Stelten gives "suppliantly, humbly" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a humble answer.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # In humble entreaty, [[m|en|suppliantly]], humbly, submissively.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[supplex]]

+ * [[supplicō]]

+ * [[supplicium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}