suppetiae

• subpetiae

From suppetō (“to be at hand, to come in handy”) +‎ -iae.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sʊpˈpɛ.ti.ae̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [supˈpɛt.t͡si.e]

suppetiae f pl (genitive suppetiārum); first declension

1. (pre-classical and post-Augustan, plural only) that which comes to help someone: aid, assistance, succour

   īre (ad) suppetiās alicui ― to provide help to someone

   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 5.7.31:

     Nimis bene ora commetavi atque ex mea sententia.
     Edepol, ere, ne tibi suppetias temperi adveni modo.

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   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Epidicus 5.2.12–13:

     quidquid ego malefeci, auxilia mi et suppetiae sunt domi,
     apolactizo inimicos omnis

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   • 121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars Vita divi Vespasiani 4:

     Id de imperatore Romano [Vespasiano], quantum postea eventu paruit, praedictum Iudaei ad se trahentes, rebellarunt, caesoque praeposito legatum insuper Syriae consularem suppetias ferentem, rapta aquila, fugaverunt.

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• Only attested in the nominative and accusative before Medieval Latin.
• Often used in the accusative with verbs of motion to mean "to come to one's assistance".

First-declension noun, plural only.

• “suppetiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “suppetiae”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.