longiter

Forms

longiter (comparative longius, superlative longissimē)^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin longus (“long, far”) + -iter.^[1][2]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is found in Lucretius, meaning “far, at a distance”;^[2][3] the manuscripts of Lucretius have longē, and the form longiter is known from the grammarians Nonius and Charisius, who quote those lines.^[4]

Semantic evolution

It is a rare equivalent of longē, “far”,^[2] with that adverb's comparative longius and superlative longissimē.^[1] It survived in Romance: Wiktionary lists descendants in Navarro-Aragonese and in llunt, a Valencian form.^[1]

Timeline

• 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it.^[2][3]
• end of 4th or beginning of 5th century AD – Nonius quotes it from Lucretius.^[2][3]

Meanings

Adverb

1. Far, at a distance.^[2][4][1]

Related words

• longus

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
3. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
4. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.