subseco Latin · revision 34419

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=ine-pro *sekh₁-ie/o-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''subsecō''' (present infinitive ''subsecāre'', perfect active ''subsecuī'', supine ''subsectum''); first conjugation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Varro also writes ''subsicāre''.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sub-|secō|t1=under|t2=to cut]].^(OLD 2012)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan lists it among the compounds of the simple verb, which goes back to [[itc-pro|*sekaje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*sekh₁-ie/o-|t=to cut off]].^(de Vaan 2008) The surveyors' adjective [[subsicīvus|t=left over, spare]] belongs with it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the OLD record it first in Varro's work on agriculture,^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) where grass is to be cut with sickles and some legumes are pulled up rather than cut.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to cut away below or cut off: Celsus uses it in surgery of flesh to be cut away round a bone and of skin, and Columella of underground pests that kill crops by biting through their roots.^(OLD 2012) Tibullus and Ovid use it of paring the nails.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The land surveyors use it of a boundary line that divides off land, and Frontinus explains the term ''subsicivum'' from the line that cuts it off.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of cutting grass and legumes.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 55–19/18 BC – Tibullus uses it of paring the nails.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it in surgery.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of pests cutting the roots of crops.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To cut away below, cut off; to [[m|en|mow]], [[m|en|clip]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014)

+ # To [[m|en|pare]] (the nails).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(surveying)'' To divide off (land) by a boundary line.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[subsicīvus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[secō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}