sedia Italian · revision 38767

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=before 1292, Bono Giamboni|origins=la sedeō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈsɛ.dja/^(Wiktionary)

+ * Regional: /ˈse.dja/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sedia''' ''f'' (plural sedie)^(Wiktionary)

+ The older form [[roa-oit|sieda]] (14th century, Cavalca) is still used in southern Tuscany;^(DEI|3439)^(Devoto–Oli 2026) ''seggia'' is archaic.^(DEI|3439)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[sedere|t=to sit]], most probably through the old form [[roa-oit|sieda]] with metathesis of the ⟨i⟩.^(DEI|3439)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Devoto 1968) GDLI also allows [[la-lat|seda]] as the source.^(GDLI) DEI compares the same shift in [[madia]] beside [[maida]], and the opposite one in Tuscan [[pianere]] for [[paniere]] and [[bestiemma]] for [[bestemmia]].^(DEI|3439) Meyer-Lübke lists this word and [[seggio]] among the outcomes of the Latin verb.^(REW 1935)

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+ The verb continues [[la|sedeō|t=to sit, be seated]], from [[itc-pro|*sedē-]] and [[ine-pro|*sed-|t=to sit]]; it is related to [[grc|ἕζομαι|tr=hézomai|t=to sit down]] and [[lt|sėdėti|alt=sėdė́ti]], both meaning “to sit”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The first record, before 1292 in Bono Giamboni's ''Vizi e virtù'', has the sense “seat, throne”.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003) The sense “chair” for a single person is in Giordano da Pisa's Lent sermons of 1305–1306.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Old Italian the word also meant a residence (Giovanni Villani), the seat of the blessed in heaven (Petrarch), and in Dante and Petrarch ''sedia apostolica'' was the papal see.^(DEI|3439)^(GRADIT 2003) Phrases name the kinds of chair: the ''sedia curule'' of the Roman magistrates, the ''sedia gestatoria'' on which the pope was carried, with its bearers, the ''sediari'' (17th century), the ''sedia a dondolo'' “rocking chair”, the ''sedia a rotelle'' “wheelchair”, and the ''sedia elettrica'', a calque of English ''electric chair''.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(DEI|3439) In engineering a ''sedia'' is also the iron bracket that holds the bearings of a line shaft.^(GRADIT 2003) Ottoman Turkish borrowed the word, and modern Turkish has ''sedye''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Before 1292 – Bono Giamboni uses ''sedia'' for a seat of authority.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1305–1306 – Giordano da Pisa uses it for a chair.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 14th century – Cavalca has the older form ''sieda''.^(DEI|3439)

+ * 17th century – ''Sediario'', a bearer of the papal chair, is recorded.^(DEI|3439)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|chair]], a seat for one person with legs and a back: ''Prendi una sedia e siediti vicino a me.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(archaic)'' A [[m|en|throne]], a seat of authority.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(archaic)'' A residence, a seat.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(engineering)'' A fixed cast-iron support for the bearings of a transmission shaft.^(GRADIT 2003)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sediario]]

+ * [[sediaio]]

+ * [[sediolo]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sedere]]

+ * [[seggio]]

+ * [[seggiola]]

+ * [[sede]]

+ * [[la|sedeō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Seggiola'' is a synonym.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026) ''Sedia a sdraio'' is a deckchair, ''sedia pieghevole'' a folding chair.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}