successus Latin · revision 4271

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Caesar|origins=la succēdō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''successus''' ''m'' (genitive successūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|succedo|-tus|t1=to go up to, succeed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Caesar uses it of the enemy's approach, which, with the shortness of time, hindered the Romans.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Caesar c. 50 BC, though he gives Virgil as its first author.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense was the action of coming up close, an advance, and Virgil uses it of the running of horses.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Virgil also uses it of success in an undertaking, as Coroebus exulting in success, and Varro and Livy of a successful outcome.^(OLD 2012) Arnobius uses it of a place one goes down into, a cave.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In medieval Latin it meant an inheritance.^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''success'' is recorded in the 1530s as “result, outcome”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of an approach.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of a good outcome.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of success.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – English ''success'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An approach, advance.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|success]] in an undertaking.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A good outcome.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' A cave.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An [[m|en|inheritance]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[succedo|alt=succēdō]]

+ * [[en|success]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}