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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la sedeō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈsɛs.si.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈsɛs.si.o]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''sessiō''' ''f'' (genitive sessiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|sedeo|-tiō|t1=to sit]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Varro noted that a seat should have been [[m|la|sediculum]] from sitting, as [[cubiculum]] comes from lying.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Cicero, in On Duties, lists standing, walking, sitting and reclining among bodily postures.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It was the action or state of sitting, and Lewis & Short call it Ciceronian.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Concretely it was a seat or place to sit, as the seats of the gymnasia in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero also uses it of a halt or pause, an idle sitting.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Wiktionary) Ulpian in the Digest uses it of a judicial sitting of the praetor.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Augustine says walking is the medicine for sitting.^(Georges 1913)
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+ In medieval Latin it was a homestead, and a site for building a water mill.^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''session'' is recorded in the late 14th century for the sitting of a court.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro discusses the word.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of sitting and of seats.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of a court sitting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''session'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Sitting, a sitting posture.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # A seat, place to sit.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # A pause, idle sitting.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Wiktionary)
+ # A judicial [[m|en|session]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A homestead; a site for a mill.^(Niermeyer 1976)
+ 
+ ==Word family==
+ * [[sessiuncula]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[sedeō]]
+ * [[sessus]]
+ * [[en|session]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}