digredior Latin · revision 31427

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=2nd century BC, Afranius|origins=ine-pro *g(h)rd(h)-(e)i-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [diːˈɡrɛ.di.ɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [diˈɡrɛː.di.or]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dīgredior''' (present infinitive dīgredī, perfect active dīgressus sum); third (-iō variant) conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ Manuscripts often confuse it with ''dēgredior'';^(OLD 2012) ''disgredior'' is transmitted in Boethius.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|dis-|t=apart]] and [[m|la|gradior|t=to step, walk]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) ⟨gradior⟩ goes back to [[itc-pro|*grad-(e)i-]] and [[ine-pro|*g(h)rd(h)-(e)i-]], cognate with [[sga|do·greinn|t=to chase, drive]] and [[wlm|grynnyaw|t=to press, thrust]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is Afranius' “we go off home”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to go off or away, and of two or more people to part or separate, as Cicero's moon that now meets the sun and now moves away from it;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Suetonius uses it of a woman separated from her husband by divorce.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In rhetoric it is to digress, as Cicero's complaint about digressing from the case, and to pass from or leave a subject, as Virgil's “passing on from here, I bid you give the goats leafy arbutus”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “depart, digress”.^(Stelten 1995) Its participle ''dīgressus'' gave English ''digress'' in the 1520s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 2nd century BC – Afranius of going home.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of digressing from the case.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of passing to another subject.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of divorce.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1520s – English [[m|en|digress]] is formed from its participle.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To go off or away, [[m|en|depart]]; to part, separate;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) to part by [[m|en|divorce|alt=divorce]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' To [[m|en|digress]]; to pass from a subject.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dīgressiō]]

+ * [[dīgressus]]

+ * [[dīgressīvus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aggredior]]

+ * [[antegredior]]

+ * [[congredior]]

+ * [[dēgredior]]

+ * [[ēgredior]]

+ * [[gradior]]

+ * [[ingredior]]

+ * [[prōgredior]]

+ * [[regredior]]

+ * [[retrōgradior]]

+ * [[gradus]]

+ * [[trānsgredior]]

+ * [[en|digress]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}