subsilio Latin · revision 35741

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la saliō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sʊpˈsɪ.li.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [subˈsiː.li.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''subsiliō''' (present infinitive subsilīre, perfect active subsiluī); fourth conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ⟨sussiliō⟩.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sub-|saliō#1|t2=to leap, jump]].^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found first in Plautus, of a person jumping up: in the ''Casina'' a character reports that someone leapt up and struck him in the face.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the literal sense it is used of people and animals springing up,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and of things treated as if alive: in Plautus door bolts are begged to leap up, Lucretius has fires that leap up to the roofs of houses, and Propertius uses it of the losing throw of the dice, the “dogs”, that kept turning up.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Apuleius says that Pegasus leaps up all the way to the sky.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis and Short call it mostly poetic and absent from Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Seneca uses it figuratively of a mind that springs up and stands firmer,^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010) and in the ''De clementia'', in an uncertain reading, transitively of plunging beneath the earth.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means “to leap up, skip”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a person jumping up.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of fires leaping up.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius uses it of a throw of the dice.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it figuratively and, transitively, of plunging under the earth.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of Pegasus leaping to the sky.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To [[m|en|jump]] up, spring up, [[m|en|leap]] upwards.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To spring up, react.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To leap into, plunge beneath.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[subsultim]]

+ * [[subsultō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[saliō#1]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}