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Sido

Sido · v. n

to seat one's self

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Where it lives

De Institutione Viri Boni, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 54.35/10k
Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 7.65/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 2 · 7.53/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 3.6/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Contra Symmachum 3 · 2.5/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 4 · 1.63/10k

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. sīdo — Lewis & Short

sīdo, sīdi, 3, v. n.cf. sedeo; Gr. i(/zw,

I to seat one's self, sit down; to settle, alight (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; usu. of things)

I In gen.: quaesitisque diu terris, ubi sidere detur, Ov. M. 1, 307; cf.: (columbae) super arbore sidunt, Verg. A. 6, 203: canes sidentes, sitting down, Plin. 10, 63, 83, § 177.—

b Of things, to sink down, settle: sidebant campi (shortly after: subsidere saxa), Lucr. 5, 493: nec membris incussam sidere cretam, id. 3, 382; cf. Col. 12, 24, 2: in tepidā aquā gutta (balsami) sidens ad ima vasa, Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 123: cummi in aquā sidit, id. 12, 25, 54, § 121: cave lecticā sidat, be set down, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 78. prius caelum sidet inferius mari, Quam, etc., Hor. Epod. 5, 79.—

II In partic., pregn.

A To sit or be set fast; to remain sitting, lying, or fixed: mare certis canalibus ita profundum, ut nullae ancorae sidant, can hold, Plin. 6, 22, 24, § 82: secures sidunt, id. 16, 10, 19, § 47: tum queror, in toto non sidere pallia lecto, remain lying, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 31.—

2 Naut. t. t., of a vessel, to stick fast on shallows: veniat mea litore navis Servata, an mediis sidat onusta vadis, Prop. 3, 14 (3, 6), 30; cf.: ubi eae (cymbae) siderent, Liv. 26, 45; Quint. 12, 10, 37; Tac. A. 1, 70; 2, 6; Nep. Chabr. 4, 2.—

B To sink down, to sink out of sight.

1 Lit.: non flebo in cineres arcem sidisse paternos Cadmi, Prop. 3, 9 (4, 8), 37: sidentes in tabem spectat acervos, settling or melting down, Luc. 7, 791; cf. Stat. S. 5, 3, 199.—

2 Trop.: vitia civitatis pessum suā mole sidentis, sinking, Sen. Const. 2; cf.: sidentia imperii fundamenta, Plin. 15, 18, 20, § 78: sidente paulatim metu, Tac. H. 2, 15.

2. Sido — Lewis & Short

Sido, ōnis, m.,

I a chief of the Suevi about the middle of the first century, Tac. H. 3, 5; 3, 21; id. A. 12, 29 sq.

3. sidö — Walde–Hofmann

sidö, sedi und sidi (alt nach Specht KZ. 62,64 nur in ad-, cönsedi) sessum, -ere „ich setze mich“ (seit Ov.; Komp.: ad- seit Plt., circum- seit Liv., con- seit Cic., dé- seit Cic., dis- seit Cic., in- seit Cic., ob- seit Tibull, poss- seit Cic., re- seit Cic., subsidö seit Pe): zu gr. iZw „setze“ Henze, Osthoff Pf. 4 m. Lit, Vendryes MSL, 20, 1181f, Brugmann II? 3, 139; nicht *s,d-;j0), ibpüw „setze, richte ein“ … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. sidö, p. 1415]

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. sido (scan p. 634; entry #10473).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. sidö (scan p. 1415; entry #2536). Root candidates: *sid-.

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