circumsedeo Latin · revision 9635

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kɪr.kũːˈsɛ.de.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [t͡ʃir.kumˈsɛː.de.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''circumsedeō''' (present infinitive circumsedēre, perfect active circumsēdī, supine circumsessum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Also ''circumsideō'', in Mela and Tacitus.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|circum-|sedeō|t1=around|t2=to sit]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨sedeō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*sed-ē-|t=to be seated]], from [[ine-pro|*sed-eh₁-|t=to be seated]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Cicero, of blockading and of sitting round.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to surround, blockade, besiege, as in Cicero; to sit round a person, as in Seneca's ''flōrentēs amīcōrum turba circumsedet'' “a crowd of friends sits round the prosperous”; and to live or be settled round.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to sit around.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of friends sitting round.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To surround, [[m|en|blockade]], invest.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To sit round.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To live or be settled round.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[circumsessiō]]

+ * [[circumsessus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[assideō]]

+ * [[dēsideō]]

+ * [[dissideō]]

+ * [[īnsideō]]

+ * [[obsideō]]

+ * [[persedeō]]

+ * [[possideō]]

+ * [[praesideō]]

+ * [[resideō]]

+ * [[sedeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}