pererro Latin · revision 32146

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=ine-pro *h₁ers-o/h₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɛˈrɛr.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [peˈrɛr.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pererrō''' (present infinitive pererrāre, perfect active pererrāvī, supine pererrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|errō|t2=to wander]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|errō]] to [[itc-pro|*ers-āje-|t=to be restless]], a verb made from [[ine-pro|*h₁ers-o/h₂-|t=erring, error]], perhaps from a root “to flow”, so first a flowing to and fro.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[goh|irren|t=to be mistaken]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL dates it from Virgil,^(TLL) in whose ''Aeneid'' Aeneas is told that he will found walls once he has wandered over the sea.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to wander through or over an area, to roam or traverse, as Horace who often roams the deceitful forum in the evening.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL counts six examples in Virgil, few in Horace, many in Ovid and Seneca.^(TLL) Of things it means to wander about a place, as Ovid's streams that wander through the Paelignian fields.^(OLD 2012) It also means to go over something with the senses or the mind, as in Virgil's “she surveys him all over with her eyes”.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it intransitively of an attempt at breeding that goes wrong.^(OLD 2012) Glossaries explain it with [[m|la|perambulō]] and [[m|la|peragrō]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of wandering over the sea and of looking someone over.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of roaming the forum.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of streams wandering through fields.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of a failed conception.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To wander through or over, [[m|en|roam]], [[m|en|traverse]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of things, to wander about a place.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To go over with the eyes or the mind, survey, review.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of an attempt, to go wrong, fail.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[erro|alt=errō]]

+ * [[error]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}