sedeo
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *sedēō, from earlier *sedējō, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-éh₁-ye-ti (eh₁-stative), 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
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈse.de.oː/, [ˈs̠ɛd̪eoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.de.o/, [ˈsɛːd̪eo]
Verb edit
sedeō (present infinitive sedēre, perfect active sēdī, supine sessum); second conjugation, impersonal in the passive
- to sit, to be seated
- to sit in an official seat; sit in council or court, hold court, preside
- to keep the field, remain encamped
- to settle or sink down, subside
- to sit still; remain, tarry, stay, abide, linger, loiter; sit around
- (figuratively) to hold or hang fast or firm; to be established, settled, fixed, determined, resolved
- (Medieval Latin, Ibero-Romance) to be
- Pueri claustrales et bachalarii descendant in fine scalæ dormitorii, et illic sedeant.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Conjugation edit
This verb lacks almost all passive forms. Only the third-person singular passive forms are known.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
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