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Pronunciation

  • IPA (Classical): [paːˈɡaː.tĩː][1]
  • IPA (Ecclesiastical): [paˈɡaː.tim][1]

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

  • 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it.[3][4]

Meanings

Adverb

  1. By villages or districts.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  4. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  5. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften