pigeo Latin · revision 31327

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpɪ.ɡe.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpiː.d͡ʒe.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pigeō''' (present infinitive pigēre, perfect active piguī, supine pigitum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The perfect is ''piguit'' or ''pigitum est''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ Ennius has a form ''pigret''.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It belongs to [[m|la|piger|t=sluggish, reluctant]]: the TLL suggests that a personal verb ⟨*pigeō⟩ “I am unwilling” first stood beside the adjective, as ⟨maceō⟩ beside ⟨macer⟩, and that the impersonal ⟨piget⟩ grew from it like ⟨pudet⟩.^(TLL) De Vaan gives [[itc-pro|*pig-ē-|t=to fill with revulsion]] beside ⟨*pig-ro-⟩ “inactive”, and calls the root etymology unknown; the Germanic words for “crime, treason” sometimes compared cannot be linked directly.^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary reports a derivation from [[ine-pro|*peyǵ-]], about which de Vaan is sceptical.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has “tell me your name, if it doesn't irk you” in the ''Menaechmi'';^(OLD 2012) de Vaan also dates it from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is mostly impersonal, ''piget'', “it irks, it displeases”, with the person in the accusative and the cause in the genitive, as Virgil's ''piget inceptī'', “they regret what they began”, or with an infinitive, as Ennius' reluctance to bear the toil.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Propertius has a gerundive, “words to be regretted”, and Apuleius the participle, “irked”.^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary and Lewis and Short also give a personal use, to feel annoyance or reluctance at, to repent of.^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses ''piget'' “it irks, troubles, disgusts, grieves”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: “if it doesn't irk you”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius has ''pigret''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil: ''piget inceptī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius has the participle.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(impersonal)'' It [[m|en|irk|alt=irks]], displeases, grieves;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''mē piget'', I regret, I am reluctant.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To feel annoyance or reluctance at; to [[m|en|repent]] of.^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pudet]]

+ * [[taedet]]

+ * [[piger]]

+ * [[pigritia]]

+ * [[paenitet]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein distinguishes ''piget'', what one can neither do nor bear at all, from ''taedet'', what one can no longer do or bear, and ''paenitet'', what one wishes one had never done or suffered.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}