semoveo Latin · revision 34444

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=la moveō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [seːˈmɔ.we.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [seˈmɔː.ve.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sēmoveō''' (present infinitive sēmovēre, perfect active sēmōvī, supine sēmōtum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sē-|moveō|t1=apart|t2=to move]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains the prefix as the old ablative ⟨sēd⟩, which as a preposition meant “without, away”.^(de Vaan 2008) The verb [[m|la|moveō]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*mow(a)-]] and [[ine-pro|*m(i̯)euh₁-|t=to move]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first use is in Terence, ''vos semotae, nos soli'', “you women, stand aside; we are alone”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to move apart, put aside, remove or separate, a word Lewis and Short call rare but classical.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it of people kept away from the free citizens at the games by the crier's voice, and in a figurative sense of setting words, opinions or pleasure aside, or of excluding the philosopher Strato from a school.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Lucretius removes a reader from cares, and the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' separates one thing from another.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Its participle [[sēmōtus]] became an adjective meaning distant, remote, as in Caesar and Horace.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Apuleius has ''semotis procul profanis'', “the uninitiated being sent far away”.^(Conte 2010) In Ecclesiastical Latin it also means to renounce.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of sending people aside.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of removing someone from cares.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of separating opinions from philosophy.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of sending the uninitiated away.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To move apart, put aside, [[m|en|remove]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To [[m|en|separate]], exclude, set aside from consideration.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To [[m|en|renounce]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sēmōtus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[moveō]]

+ * [[āmoveō]]

+ * [[sēparō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}