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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Cicero|origins=ine-pro *sed-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ĩːˈsɪ.de.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [inˈsiː.de.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''īnsideō''' (present infinitive īnsidēre, perfect active īnsēdī, supine īnsessum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ Its forms are often not distinguishable from those of ''īnsīdō''.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[in-]] and [[sedeō]] “to sit”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ''sedeō'' to the stative [[ine-pro|*sed-eh₁-|t=to be seated]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's first source is Cicero, whom he dates 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010) Cicero has ''immānī bēluae īnsidēre'' “to sit on a monstrous beast”.^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to sit or be seated on, as in Ovid, and of things to rest on, as in Vitruvius.^(OLD 2012) In Cicero it meant to be situated on a place, to occupy it, to be present in someone, as a feeling fixed in the mind, and to lie heavy on.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to rest upon.^(Stelten 1995) Its derivative ''īnsidiae'' “ambush”, literally a sitting in wait, gave ''īnsidiōsus'' and [[en|insidious]] in the 1540s.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of things resting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1540s – English ''insidious'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To sit on.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To rest on.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To occupy; to be fixed in.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To lie heavy on.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[insessor]]
+ * [[īnsidia]]
+ * [[īnsessiō]]
+ * [[īnsessus]]
+ * [[īnsidiae]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[assideō]]
+ * [[circumsedeō]]
+ * [[dēsideō]]
+ * [[dissideō]]
+ * [[obsideō]]
+ * [[persedeō]]
+ * [[possideō]]
+ * [[praesideō]]
+ * [[resideō]]
+ * [[sedeō]]
+ * [[īnsīdō]]
+ * [[en|insidious]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}