subsortitio Latin · revision 36729

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''subsortītiō''' ''f'' (genitive subsortītiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|subsortior|-tiō|t1=to choose by lot as a substitute]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010) That verb is formed from [[m|la|sub-]] and [[m|la|sortior|t=to draw lots]],^(OLD 2012) which is made from [[m|la|sors|t=lot]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero is its first author,^(Köbler 2010) in the ''Verrines'' and the ''Pro Cluentio'', of a second drawing of lots to choose judges in place of those the parties had rejected.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a technical word of Roman courts, for filling up a jury by lot.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Suetonius uses it in his ''Life of Caesar'' of another kind of filling up: a drawing of lots by the praetor to choose citizens to receive grain in place of those who had died.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of choosing replacement judges by lot.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of choosing new recipients of the grain dole.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(law)'' The choosing of [[m|en|substitute]] judges by [[m|en|lot]], in place of those rejected by the parties.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # A choosing by lot to fill vacancies, such as those among recipients of grain.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sortītiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}