insuo Latin · revision 36653

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈĩː.su.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈin.su.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnsuō''' (present infinitive īnsuere, perfect active īnsuī, supine īnsūtum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|suō|t2=to sew]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) The simple verb goes back to [[itc-pro|*s(j)ūje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*siuH-ie/o-|t=to sew]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ Cognate with [[lt|siū́ti]] and [[lv|šũt]], “to sew”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Plautus,^(TLL) in the phrase ''iubē hunc in culleō īnsuī'', “have him sewn into a sack”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its main sense was to sew someone or something up inside something, especially in the Roman punishment of parricides, who were sewn into a sack: Cicero has ''īnsuī in culleum'', and Seneca the Elder, Quintilian and Suetonius use it the same way.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Ovid uses it of an infant sewn into his father's thigh and of being sewn into the hide of a bullock.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ It also meant to sew one thing onto another: Varro has a soft piece of skin sewn in, Virgil the boxing gloves stiff with lead sewn into them, Columella a cord with coloured rags sewn on.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Ovid's ''īnsūtum vestibus aurum'' is gold embroidered on clothes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Medieval writers used it of sewing sacred ashes or bones into cushions and bags, and of sewing on or binding.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of sewing a man into a sack.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the punishment of parricides.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of lead sewn into boxing gloves.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of gold embroidered on clothing.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 830 – Einhard has sacred ashes sewn into new silk cushions.^(MLW)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|sew]] up in, sew into.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To sew up (a parricide) in a sack, as a punishment.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # To attach by sewing, sew on; to [[m|en|embroider]].^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[insūtus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}