Σέδετον
encampment
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Translation
The [alternative name for an] entrenchment.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σέδετον· τὸ φοσσάτον.
Betacode
*se/deton: to\ fossa/ton.
Notes
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Headword and gloss are both Late Latin loanwords which entered Greek military vocabulary in Late Antiquity. The termse/deton , from Latin seditum, sedeo, 'to settle down', 'to fix camp', is rare and usually refers to a long-term or permanent military installation or base within Roman or allied territory. Far more widely attested,fossa/ton (phi 624), from Latin fossatum, 'entrenchment', originally signified a temporary marching camp but later came to mean also a generic encampment, regardless of design, size or duration.
See Mihăescu (1968-9) III 268-9; (1978-9) III 372, 381-2; Kramer (1996).
References
J. Kramer, 'Fossatum im Lateinischen, Griechischen und Romanischen', Wiener Studien 109 (1996) 231-42
H. Mihăescu, 'Les éléments latins des "Tactica-Strategica" de Maurice-Urbicius et leur écho en néo-grec', RESEE [I] 6 (1968) 481-98; [II] 7 (1969) 155-66; [III] 267-80
H. Mihăescu, 'La littérature byzantine, source de connaissance du latin vulgaire', RESEE [I] 16 (1978) 195-215; [II] 17 (1979) 39-60, [III] 359-83
H. Mihăescu, 'Les éléments latins des "Tactica-Strategica" de Maurice-Urbicius et leur écho en néo-grec', RESEE [I] 6 (1968) 481-98; [II] 7 (1969) 155-66; [III] 267-80
H. Mihăescu, 'La littérature byzantine, source de connaissance du latin vulgaire', RESEE [I] 16 (1978) 195-215; [II] 17 (1979) 39-60, [III] 359-83
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