egressus Latin · revision 31397

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *g(h)rd(h)-(e)i-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [eːˈɡrɛs.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eˈɡrɛs.sus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēgressus''' ''m'' (genitive ēgressūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The genitive singular is found once, in the ''Bellum Africum''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|ēgredior|t=to go out]] with the suffix [[m|la|-tus]] of action nouns.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The verb is [[m|la|ex-|t=out]] with [[m|la|gradior|t=to step]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*grad-(e)i-]] and [[ine-pro|*g(h)rd(h)-(e)i-]].^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in the ''In Pisonem'' speaks of crowds that saw the consuls off when they went out to their provinces.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the action of going out, departure or escape, as Tacitus' Tiberius, who rarely went out; in Caesar it is landing from a ship, as the part of the island where he had learnt the landing was best.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Vitruvius uses it of a load's movement upwards, and Petronius of a place of exit, as the dark way out by which he pulled Giton; it is also the point where a river or spring comes out.^(OLD 2012) In rhetoric it is a digression, as in Valerius Maximus.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Köbler finds it in the Bible, the formulae and the Bavarian and Lombard laws.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the consuls' departure.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of landing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius of a way out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of Tiberius' rare outings.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A going out, [[m|en|departure]], [[m|en|egress]], escape.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A landing, [[m|en|disembarkation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A way out, an outlet; the mouth of a river.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A [[m|en|digression]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ēgredior]]

+ * [[gradior]]

+ * [[ingressus]]

+ * [[prōgressus]]

+ * [[en|egress]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}