miserandus Latin · revision 31844

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=la miser}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''miserandus''' (feminine ''miseranda'', neuter ''miserandum''); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the gerundive of [[m|la|miseror|t=to pity, bewail]], used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The verb comes from [[m|la|miser|t=wretched]],^(de Vaan 2008) which goes back to [[itc-pro|*misro-]]; it may be connected with [[maereō|t=to grieve]], but no convincing Indo-European source has been found.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first example in the OLD is Terence's “a lamentable and wicked deed!”^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of persons it means deserving pity, pitiable, as in Virgil's “alas, pitiable boy”, and Manilius uses it of a lament.^(OLD 2012) Of circumstances it is lamentable or deplorable, and Tacitus uses it of pitifully inadequate food, telling how Drusus kept himself alive for eight days by chewing the stuffing of his bed.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a pitiable boy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|pitiable|alt=Pitiable]], deserving pity.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|lamentable|alt=Lamentable]], deplorable.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Pitifully inadequate, wretched.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[miseror]]

+ * [[miser]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}