abscedo Latin · revision 9415

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *ḱyesdʰ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''abscēdō''' (present infinitive abscēdere, perfect active abscessī, supine abscessum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Also ''apscēdō'', and Silius has the syncopated ''abscēssem''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[abs-]] “away” and [[cēdō]] “to go, withdraw”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) De Vaan traces ⟨cēdō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*kesd-e/o-|t=to go away]], from [[ine-pro|*ḱyesdʰ-|t=to drive away; go away]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of going away.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to go away, as in Plautus' ''abscēde!'' “go away!”; of troops to withdraw, as in Livy; to vanish, as in Cicero; of coasts and buildings to recede, as in Vitruvius; to give up an enterprise, retire, as in Nepos; to be taken away; and of illness and feelings to pass off.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In medicine, as in Celsus, it meant to separate off, slough, and to gather into an abscess.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to retire, depart.^(Stelten 1995) Its noun ''abscessus'', used medically by Celsus, gave [[en|abscess]] in the 1610s, from the notion that humours go away from the body through the swelling.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it of an abscess.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1610s – English ''abscess'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To go away; to withdraw, retire.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To vanish; to recede.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To give up, abandon.^(OLD 2012)

+ # (of illness) To pass off.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(medicine)'' To slough; to form an [[m|en|abscess]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[abscessiō]]

+ * [[abscessus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cēdō]]

+ * [[en|abscess]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}