aegre Latin · revision 31003

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂eig-ro-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈae̯.ɡreː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɛː.ɡre]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aegrē''' (comparative aegrius, superlative aegerrimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the adverb of [[m|la|aeger|t=sick, troubled]], formed with [[m|la|-ē]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces the adjective to [[itc-pro|*aigro-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂eig-ro-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Asinaria'': no slave could be worse, nor one to guard against ''aegrius'', “with more difficulty”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is painfully, with difficulty, hardly or scarcely.^(OLD 2012) With verbs of bearing it is with pain or displeasure: ''aegrē ferre'' or ''aegrē patī'' is to take something ill, as in Terence.^(OLD 2012) It is also grudgingly or reluctantly, as Livy's Attalus allowing something, and ''aegrē facere'' with a dative is to cause someone pain or trouble, already in Plautus.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it “with difficulty, with regret, unwillingly”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus in the senses “with difficulty” and in ''aegrē facere''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of displeasure.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy in the sense “reluctantly”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Painfully, with [[m|en|difficulty]]; hardly, [[m|en|scarcely]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # With pain or displeasure, ''aegrē ferre'', to take ill, be vexed at.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|grudgingly|alt=Grudgingly]], [[m|en|reluctantly]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # So as to cause pain, ''aegrē facere'', to annoy, cause trouble (to).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aeger]]

+ * [[aegritūdō]]

+ * [[aegrōtus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein distinguishes [[vix]], “scarcely”, of a thing that nearly did not happen, from ''aegrē'', “with much ado”, which looks at the agent, anxious whether he will succeed, and is opposed to [[facile]].^(Döderlein 1874) With ''ferre'' it stands beside ''graviter'' and ''molestē ferre'', all of a silent displeasure, as opposed to the open anger of [[īrāscor]].^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}