decedo Latin · revision 8109

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Lucilius|origins=la cēdō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [deːˈkeː.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [deˈt͡ʃɛː.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēcēdō''' (present infinitive dēcēdere, perfect active dēcessī, supine dēcessum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Terence has the shortened infinitive ''dēcesse'' for ''dēcessisse''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[dē-]] “away” and [[cēdō]] “to go”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Lucilius, of going away.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Lucilius c. 180–102 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to go away, depart, and in Livy to desert, as ''praesidiō dēcēdere'' “to quit one's post”.^(OLD 2012) The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of an official leaving his province at the end of his term.^(OLD 2012) In Plautus it meant to get out of the way, make way, as for an elder in the street, in Caesar to turn off one's road, and in Cato to depart from a duty or habit.^(OLD 2012) In Cicero it meant to depart from life, die, and in Terence of feelings to subside; in Columella things disappear.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to depart, resign, die.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in French ''décéder'' and Italian ''decedere''.^(Wiktionary) Its noun ''dēcessus'', a euphemism for death, gave [[en|decease]] through Old French in the early 14th century, and [[en|deceased]] is formed from that.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it of departing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of making way.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of dying.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 14th century – English ''decease'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To go away, depart; to [[m|en|desert]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To leave office.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To make way; to turn off.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To depart (from a habit or duty).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|die]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To subside; to disappear.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēcessiō]]

+ * [[dēcessor]]

+ * [[dēcessus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cēdō]]

+ * [[en|decease]]

+ * [[en|deceased]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}