FromProto-Italic*sedēō, from earlier*sedējō, fromProto-Indo-European*sed-éh₁-ye-ti (eh₁-stative), fromProto-Indo-European*sed-, the same root assīdō(“I settle, I sink down”).Cognates includeSanskritसीदति(sī́dati),Old Church Slavonicсѣдѣти(sěděti),Old Englishsittan (Englishsit).The perfectsēdī was originally the perfect of the related third-conjugation verbsīdō; this can be seen in how prefixed derivatives ofsīdō usesēdī to form their perfects. The same fact is also demonstrated by Umbrian cognates, which feature𐌔𐌉𐌔𐌕𐌖(sistu,3sg. imp.) (from present stem*sizd-) alongside future perfectsesust (from perfect stem*sezd-).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [ˈsɛ.de.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.d̪e.o]

sedeō (present infinitivesedēre,perfect activesēdī,supinesessum);second conjugation,impersonal in thepassive

1. tosit, to beseated
2. to sit in anofficialseat; sit incouncil orcourt, hold court,preside
3. tokeep the field,remainencamped
4. tosettle orsinkdown,subside
5. to sit still; remain,tarry,stay,abide,linger,loiter;sit around
6. (figuratively) tohold orhangfast orfirm; to beestablished,settled,fixed,determined,resolved
   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid4.15:

     “Sī mihinōn animō fīxum immōtumquesedēret, [...].”

     “If for meit were not resolved — in my mind, fixed and immovable — [...].”

7. (Medieval Latin, Ibero-Romance) tobe

   Pueri claustrales et bachalarii descendant in fine scalæ dormitorii, et illicsedeant.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

This verb lacks almost all passive forms. Only the third-person singular passive forms are known.

• “sedeo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sedeo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sedeo”, inGaffiot, 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)
    

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