aegroto Latin · revision 32011

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂eig-ro-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ae̯ˈɡroː.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eˈɡrɔː.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aegrōtō''' (present infinitive aegrōtāre, perfect active aegrōtāvī, supine aegrōtātum); first conjugation, no passive^(Wiktionary)

+ An inscription at Pompeii spells it ''egr-''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a denominative verb [[der|la|aegrōtus|t=sick]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan calls the adjective an old formation, perhaps ⟨*aigroh₁-to-⟩ “with sickness”, from [[m|la|aeger|t=sick]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*aigro-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂eig-ro-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who has “be sick or be well, as you like”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to be ill, of people and animals, as in Cicero's ''graviter aegrotare'' “to be seriously ill”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lucilius uses it of the mind: a man sick in mind shows it in his body.^(OLD 2012) In Cicero it is also the unhealthy moral state of the mind, and Varro uses it of a faulty usage of words.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “grow sick, be sick”.^(Stelten 1995) Its third person ''aegrotat'' “he is sick” is used in English universities for a certificate that a student is ill.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of being sick.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius of sickness of mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of faulty usage.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of moral sickness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To be [[m|en|ill]], be sick.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To be sick in mind; to be in an unhealthy moral state.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of a usage, to be faulty.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[aegrōtātīcius]]

+ * [[aegrōtātiō]]

+ * [[coaegroto]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aegrotus|alt=aegrōtus]]

+ * [[aeger]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}