sedeo
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *sedēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-, the same root as sīdō (“I settle, I sink down”). Cognates include Sanskrit सीदति (sī́dati), Old Church Slavonic сѣдѣти (sěděti), Old English sittan (English sit).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
sedeō (present infinitive sedēre, perfect active sēdī, supine sessum); second conjugation, impersonal in the passive
- I sit, I am seated
- I sit in an official seat; sit in council or court, hold court, preside
- I keep the field, remain encamped
- I settle or sink down, subside
- I sit still; remain, tarry, stay, abide, linger, loiter; sit around
- I hold or hang fast or firm; I am established
- (Medieval Latin, Ibero-Romance) I am
- Pueri claustrales et bachalarii descendant in fine scalæ dormitorii, et illic sedeant.
Conjugation[edit]
This verb lacks almost all passive forms. Only the third-person singular passive forms are known.
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: sedere
- ⇒ Sicilian: arrisèdiri
- Insular Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance (merged with esse 'to be')
References[edit]
- “sedeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sedeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sedeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be on horseback: in equo sedere; equo insidēre
- (ambiguous) to sit with folded arms; to be inactive: compressis manibus sedere (proverb.) (Liv. 7. 13)
- (ambiguous) to hold the reins of government: ad gubernacula (metaph. only in plur.) rei publicae sedere
- (ambiguous) the seat of war, theatre of operations: belli sedes (Liv. 4. 31)
- (ambiguous) to be on horseback: in equo sedere; equo insidēre
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- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sed-
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
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- Latin 3-syllable words
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- Latin lemmas
- Latin verbs
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- Latin second conjugation verbs with irregular perfect
- Latin verbs with impersonal passive
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook