deseco Latin · revision 34583

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

+

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈdeː.sɛ.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈdɛː.s̬e.ko]^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēsecō''' (present infinitive dēsecāre, perfect active dēsecuī, supine dēsectum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Spellings with ⟨desic-⟩ occur in Cicero's ''Timaeus'' and in the land surveyors, and an inscription has ''desequerit'' for the perfect.^(OLD 2012)

+ The perfect in ⟨-uī⟩ is found from Ovid on.^(TLL)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|secō|t2=to cut]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The verb [[m|la|secō]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*sekaje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*sekh₁-ie/o-|t=to cut off]].^(de Vaan 2008) Its cognates include [[xum|prusekatu|t=to cut out]], said of the entrails of a sacrificial animal.^(de Vaan 2008)

+

+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Varro's treatise on farming, of cutting off the shoot that is to be grafted onto a vine.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+

+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Varro also uses it of cutting straw in the harvest.^(OLD 2012) Cicero has it in his ''Timaeus'' of parts taken from a whole, Livy of ears of grain cut from the sheaves, and Columella of grapes cut from the vine and of mowing crops and meadows.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Horace uses it of a small part taken from every creature.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Germanicus it is said of lines that cut off arcs of a circle,^(OLD 2012) and Statius uses it poetically of stone carved out of quarries.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+

+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of cutting vine shoots and reaping straw.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in his ''Timaeus'' of parts cut from a whole.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of ears of grain cut from sheaves.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of mowing crops and meadows.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius uses it of stone cut from quarries.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+

+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To cut off, [[m|en|sever]]; to cut a part away from a whole.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|reap]] or cut (a crop); to [[m|en|mow]] (a field).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # (of lines) To cut off (an [[m|en|arc]]).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(poetic)'' To [[m|en|carve]] out (stone from a quarry).^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+

+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēsecātiō]]

+ * [[dēsectiō]]

+

+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}