subtexo Latin · revision 34470

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=la texō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sʊpˈtɛk.soː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [subˈtɛk.so]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''subtexō''' (present infinitive subtexere, perfect active subtexuī, supine subtextum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sub-|texō|t1=under|t2=to weave]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|texō]] to [[itc-pro|*tekse/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*teḱ-s-|t=to fashion]], comparing [[hit|takš-zi|t=to devise, undertake]] and [[sa|तक्षति|tr=tákṣati|t=to hammer, form, fashion]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is in Lucretius,^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) who writes that clouds veil the sky from below (''subtexunt nubila caelum'').^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short note that it is mostly poetic and post-Augustan, and not found in Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Literally it means to weave something on the underside of a fabric or as an appendage to it: Juvenal uses it of a crescent attached to a black shoe.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The poets use it above all of drawing a veil of cloud, smoke or darkness beneath the sun or sky: Virgil of covering the sky with smoke, and Ovid of Circe drawing clouds over her father's head, that is, the sun's.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Seneca uses the passive of a rainbow woven into the sky.^(OLD 2012) From adding something woven, it came to mean adding a supplement or sequel, especially subjoining something in speech or writing, as in Nepos, Velleius Paterculus and Seneca the Elder.^(OLD 2012) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to add, join to, fasten, annex or append.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of clouds veiling the sky.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of covering the sky with smoke.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos uses it of adding an account of family origins to a work.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal uses it of a crescent attached to a shoe.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|weave]] on the underside of something or as an appendage to it.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To draw a curtain of cloud or darkness beneath the sun or sky; to [[m|en|veil]] the sky from below.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To attach as a supplement or sequel; to [[m|en|subjoin]] in speech or writing.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[subtēmen]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}