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perrogo

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ˈpɛr.rɔ.ɡoː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [ˈpɛr.ro.ɡo][1]

Forms

perrogō (present infinitive perrogāre, perfect active perrogāvī, supine perrogātum); first conjugation[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin per- (“through”) + rogō (“to ask”).[2][3][1] De Vaan explains rogō as probably a verb made from a noun Proto-Italic *rogo-, either “directing oneself towards someone”, hence “request”, or an adjective “stretching” (of the arms, when begging), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃roǵ-o- (“stretching”).[4] He compares Old Norse rakr (“straight”).[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

The TLL finds it first in Livy,[3] who reports that on one day the opinions could not all be asked in turn.[2][5]

Semantic evolution

Its main sense is to ask each person in turn, used of asking for opinions one after another:[2][6] Livy, Seneca, Tacitus and Suetonius use it so,[2][7] and Pliny the Younger's Panegyricus says it is not enough to hear men give their views unless one also asks them in turn.[2][7] Lewis and Short think it perhaps not older than Augustus.[6]

Apuleius uses it of questioning people in turn, as teachers asking their pupils what good they have done since dawn.[2][5] Valerius Maximus has a tribune of the plebs who carried a law against his colleagues' veto, the sense of getting a proposed law passed.[2][6][7]

Timeline

  • 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of asking opinions in turn.[2][8]
  • 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of asking for an opinion.[2][8]
  • 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it in the Histories.[2][8]
  • c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of questioning pupils.[2][8]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To ask for or solicit (opinions) in turn.[2][6]
  2. To question (people) in turn.[2][7]
  3. To get (a proposed law) passed, carry (a bill).[2][6][5]

Word family

  • perrogātiō

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  4. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  5. ^ a b c Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
  6. ^ a b c d e Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  7. ^ a b c d Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
  8. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de