- Confidence
- Established
- Formation
- Derivation
- First attested
- Livy
- Ultimate origin
- Latin (pāgus)
Pronunciation
Forms
pāgātim (not comparable)[1]
Etymology
It is from Latin pāgus (“district, village”) + -ātim, an adverb.[2][1]
Earliest recorded meaning
Its earliest source is Livy, templa pāgātim sacrāta “temples consecrated village by village”.[3][4] Köbler dates Livy 59 BC–17 AD.[4]
Semantic evolution
It meant by villages or districts, in every village, as in Livy, in contrast to people gathered into one city.[2][3][5]
Timeline
Meanings
Adverb
Related words
References
- ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
- ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
- ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
- ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Cite this entry
“Pagatim.” Etymologically, 17 Oct. 2026, etymologically.com/la/pagatim. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.
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