succollo

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From sub- (“up to”) + collum (“the neck”) + -ō (suffix forming first-conjugation verbs).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    succollō (present infinitive succollāre, perfect active succollāvī, supine succollātum); first conjugation

    1. (transitive, very rare in the Classical period) I take upon the neck or shoulder, I shoulder, I raise a lectica, a Roman litter
      • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Rerum rusticarum 3.16.8 (cf. Vergilius, Georgicon 4: “attollunt umeris”):
        apes fessum (regem) sublevant, et si nequit volare, succollant
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      • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, Claud. 10 med.:
        vicissim succollantibus (lecticam)
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      • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, Oth. 6 med.:
        succollatus et a praesente comitatu imperator consalutatus
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      • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 35.117:
        sunt in eius exemplaribus nobiles palustri accessu villae, succollatis sponsione mulieribus labantes, trepidis quae feruntur, plurimae praeterea tales argutiae facetissimi salis.
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      • p. 1659, Olaus Borrichius, “Amagria Vindicata [The Defence of Amager]” (chapter 66), in Fridericus Rostgaard, editor, Deliciæ quorundam poëtarum Danorum [The Charms of a Number of Danish Poets], volume II, Lugdunum Batavorum: apud Jordanum Luchtmans, published 1693, page 510, lines 12–14:
        Queis immortales Cragii, Bielkique, Friſique, / Et Schelii, Vindique, incorruptique Sefeldi / Succollant, dextriſque hoſtilia cœpta refellunt.
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    Conjugation

    Derived terms

    • succollarus

    Further reading

    • “succollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • "SUCCOLARE", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “succollo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1505, column 3.