absisto Latin · revision 9250

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=la sistō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [apˈsɪs.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [abˈsis.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''absistō''' (present infinitive absistere, perfect active abstitī); third conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal in the passive^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ab-]] “away” and [[sistō]] “to stand, set”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Georges compares [[grc|ἀφίστημι|tr=aphístēmi|t=to stand away]].^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Georges cites Plautus, whom Köbler dates c. 250–184 BC.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010) The OLD's earliest citations are from Virgil.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to stand back, withdraw, as in Virgil, and Caesar uses it as a military term, ''ab signīs absistere'' “to leave the standards”, and Livy has ''vestīgiīs hostis absistere'' “to lose the enemy's track”.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Virgil it also meant to stop doing something, cease.^(OLD 2012)

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+ English borrowed it as ''absist''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it as a military term.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To stand back, [[m|en|withdraw]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|cease]], desist.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[assistō]]

+ * [[circumsistō]]

+ * [[cōnsistō]]

+ * [[dēsistō]]

+ * [[exsistō]]

+ * [[īnsistō]]

+ * [[obsistō]]

+ * [[persistō]]

+ * [[resistō]]

+ * [[sistō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}