addecet Latin · revision 36899

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈad.dɛ.kɛt]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈad.de.t͡ʃet]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''addecet''' (present infinitive addecēre); second conjugation, impersonal^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Only the form ''addecet'' itself is recorded.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|decet|t2=it is fitting]],^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) with ''ad-'' as an intensive prefix according to Lewis and Short.^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|decet]] to [[ine-pro|*deḱ-eh1-]], the root of [[grc|δέχομαι|tr=dékhomai|t=to accept]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found in Ennius and very often in Plautus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) An Ennius line quoted by Gellius says that a man should live with true courage: ''sed virum vērā virtūte vīvere animātum addecet''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The TLL notes that in Plautus the word nearly always ends an iambic line.^(TLL) It takes an accusative of the person (''ut mātrem addecet familiās'', “as befits a mother of a family”), an infinitive, or both; in the ''Bacchides'' someone is told that it befits him to be silent (''tē mūtum esse addecet'').^(Conte 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016) After the early poets it is found in Publilius Syrus and in Seneca's ''Oedipus''.^(Georges 1913) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means it is fit or it behooves.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it often at the end of a line.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius uses it in a tragedy.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century BC – Publilius Syrus uses it in a maxim.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it in the ''Oedipus''.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(impersonal)'' It is fitting or [[m|en|proper]], it [[m|en|befit|alt=befits]], it [[m|en|behoove|alt=behooves]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[decet]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}