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Latin
Etymology
From sub- + sīdō.
Pronunciation
Verb
subsīdō (present infinitive subsīdere, perfect active subsēdī, supine subsessum); third conjugation
- to crouch, squat, sit down, set down, sink
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 2.457:
- iam levis oblīqua subsēdit Aquārius urna
- Aquarius crouches down, now lightened , his water-jar tilted .
Now unburdened, his water-jar emptied, Aquarius sets.
(A skillful poet's word-play: Ovid's use of subsēdit can be understood as the mythological figure’s crouching stance as he pours out his water-jar, or the setting of the constellation beneath the horizon. See Aquarius (constellation).)
- to settle, subside
- Synonyms: habitō, obsideō, possideō, resideō, iaceō, cōnsīdō, colō, incolō, stabulō, vīvō, versō
- to crouch down on the watch, lie in wait, lie in ambush
- to run aground
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References
- “subsido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “subsido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- subsido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to place oneself in ambush: subsidere in insidiis (Mil. 19. 49)