propere Latin · revision 31362

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈprɔ.pɛ.reː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈprɔː.pe.re]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''properē''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ A form ''properiter'' is also found.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the adverb of [[m|la|properus|t=hasty, quick]], formed with [[m|la|-ē]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) The OLD calls the adjective of doubtful origin.^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary takes it from [[m|la|prō-|t=forward]] and the root of [[m|la|parō|t=to prepare]], meaning “readiness”;^(Wiktionary) de Vaan reports Panagl and Lindner's view that [[m|la|properō|t=to hurry]] was an old compound ⟨*prō-parāre⟩ “to bring forward, urge on”, with ⟨properus⟩ made back from it.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has “a business has been thrown at me suddenly, hastily and quickly” in the ''Curculio'';^(TLL) Köbler also gives Plautus.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is speedily, quickly or without delay, often in Plautus and in Livy, as his consuls who arrived in haste.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Tacitus also uses it for readily, without hesitation: men “readily follow what they are loath to begin”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a hasty business.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of consuls who intervened in haste.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of following readily.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|hastily|alt=Hastily]], quickly, without delay.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

+ # Readily, without hesitation.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[properus]]

+ * [[properō]]

+ * [[festīnō]]

+ * [[celeriter]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}