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