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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cato|origins=la suggerō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [sʊɡˈɡɛs.tʊs], [sʊɡˈɡɛs.tuːs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [sudˈd͡ʒɛs.tus], [sudˈd͡ʒɛs.tus]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''suggestus''' ''m'' (genitive suggestūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|suggero|-tus|t1=to bring up, heap up]], an action noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Lewis & Short also record a neuter [[suggestum]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Cato, in On Agriculture, tells the farmer to place a vat on a raised base among the jars.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Cato 234–149 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It first meant a raised surface built of earth or stones, a platform.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) In particular it was a platform raising someone above the public, the tribunal from which a general addressed his troops or a magistrate sat, as in Caesar, Livy and Tacitus.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Apuleius uses it of an accumulation, Tertullian of arrangement or equipment, and Ulpian in the Digest of a suggestion or prompting.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(OLD 2012)
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+ In medieval Latin it meant a heaping up, and also adornment or apparel.^(Niermeyer 1976) In British sources it was a pulpit for preaching, as at St Paul's in 1533.^(DMLBS) English ''suggest'' (1520s) comes from the past participle of [[suggero|alt=suggerere]].^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of a raised base.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of a tribunal.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of a suggestion.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1533 – A record uses it of a pulpit in London.^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A raised place, [[m|en|platform]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # A tribunal, dais, pulpit.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # An accumulation; arrangement, equipment.^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # A [[m|en|suggestion]], prompting.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Adornment, apparel.^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[en|suggest]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}