sublego Latin · revision 36322

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsʊb.ɫɛ.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsub.le.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sublegō''' (present infinitive sublegere, perfect active sublēgī, supine sublēctum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sub-|legō#2|t2=to gather, choose]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives that verb from [[itc-pro|*leg-e-]] and [[ine-pro|*leǵ-e/o-|t=to collect]], and notes that the compounds in ⟨-legere⟩, which keep the vowel ⟨e⟩, are relatively recent formations.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|λέγω|tr=légō|t=to collect, count; speak]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It first appears in Plautus, who uses it of children stolen from their parents in the ''Rudens'' and of a conversation overheard on the sly in the ''Miles gloriosus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The plain sense is to pick something up from the ground: Horace writes of a boy who picks up whatever is lying about and could annoy the diners, and Columella of gathering olives fallen in storms and green figs.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) The idea of taking something from below or behind gave the sense of taking it by stealth, used of kidnapping and, figuratively, of catching words or songs unnoticed, in Turpilius and Virgil.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ In public language it meant to choose someone for a place left vacant by another: an old law about the ''viatores'' uses it,^(OLD 2012) Livy writes of filling the places of dead senators, and Tacitus and Valerius Maximus of enrolling families among the patricians or men into the senate.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of stealing children and of overhearing.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 2nd century BC – Turpilius uses it of overhearing talk.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro explains ''sublectī'' as men chosen in place of others.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of songs picked up by stealth.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of picking things up from the floor.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of filling the places of dead senators.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of adding families to the patricians.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|pick up]] from the ground, gather up from below.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To take away secretly, [[m|en|steal]] (children); to pick up (words, songs) by [[m|en|eavesdropping]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To appoint to a place left vacant, choose as a [[m|en|substitute]]; to add (members) to a body.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sublectio]]

+ * [[sublēctus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dīligō]]

+ * [[ēligō]]

+ * [[intellegō]]

+ * [[neglegō]]

+ * [[perlegō]]

+ * [[legō#2]]

+ * [[colligō#1]]

+ * [[relegō#2]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Varro distinguishes colleagues chosen together, those chosen in the place of others (''sublectī'') and those added (''allectī'').^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}