abscessus Latin · revision 34550

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''abscessus''' ''m'' (genitive abscessūs); fourth declension^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Also spelled ''abcessus''.^(Köbler 2010)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|abscēdō|-tus|t1=to go away]].^(OLD 2012)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|abs-|t=away]] and [[m|la|cēdō#1|t=to go, withdraw]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*kesd-e/o-|t=to go away, avoid]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who writes of regions frozen by the sun's great distance, ''longinquo solis abscessu''.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Virgil uses it of the withdrawal of the Rutulians, Pliny the Elder of the sun's going away, and Tacitus of absence and retirement, a continuous absence being compared to exile.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Celsus made it a medical term, a [[m|en|congestion]] or [[m|en|abscess]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Augustine and the Theodosian Code it means death,^(Conte 2010) the sense the Ecclesiastical and medieval dictionaries give.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976) Bede writes of the years after a man's departure from Britain, and other medieval writers in Britain use it of a withdrawal and of the dispatch of business.^(DMLBS) Italian ''ascesso'' comes from it.^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero writes of the sun's distance.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of a withdrawal from battle.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it of an abscess.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of absence and retirement.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine uses it of death.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A going away, [[m|en|departure]], withdrawal.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|absence|alt=Absence]], retirement;^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) of things, remoteness.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(medicine)'' A congestion, an [[m|en|abscess]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' [[m|en|death|alt=Death]].^(Conte 2010)^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[abscēdō]]

+ * [[cēdō#1]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}