permagnus Latin · revision 32344

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=ine-pro *mǵ-no-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɛrˈmaŋ.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [perˈmaɲ.ɲus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''permagnus''' (feminine permagna, neuter permagnum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|magnus|t1=very|t2=great]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan, who dates it from Terence, traces [[m|la|magnus]] to [[itc-pro|*magno-|t=great]] and [[ine-pro|*mǵ-no-|t=great]], comparing [[sa|महि|tr=máhi-|t=large]] and [[hit|mekk-|t=much, many]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Terence uses it in the phrase “it matters very much”.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means very great in size, as Varro's hares in Gaul, and especially very great in amount or degree, as Cicero's large inheritance and great favour.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Permagnō is “for a very high price” and permagnī “at a very high value”.^(OLD 2012) It also means very important, and of actions very remarkable: Cicero tells of a man who thought it a very great thing that three Olympic victors came from one house.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It has no comparative, and it is sometimes split by another word.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of something that matters very much.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of very large hares.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a large inheritance and many other things.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Very [[m|en|large]], very great in size.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Very great in number, amount or degree;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''permagnō'', for a very high price;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''permagnī'', at a very high value.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Very important.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Very [[m|en|remarkable]]; of persons, very eminent.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}