pervius Latin · revision 32484

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la via}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpɛr.wi.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpɛr.vi.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pervius''' (feminine pervia, neuter pervium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|per-|t=through]] and [[m|la|via|t=road, way]] with [[m|la|-us]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) the TLL takes it as a possessive compound describing places that have a road passing through them.^(TLL) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[m|la|via]], from [[itc-pro|*wijā-|t=road]], and compares [[osc|víú|t=road]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008) The OLD's earliest example is in Terence's ''Adelphoe'': the house will become a thoroughfare for a brother who will bring a crowd home.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It describes what one can pass through or across, passable or open: Cicero has passages and thoroughfares.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid uses it of a sunless house open to no wind, and Columella of a garden fenced so that it is not open to a thief.^(OLD 2012) Livy has a cave with an opening at both ends, and a grammarian quoted by Gellius describes a mask pierced by only one hole for the voice.^(OLD 2012) Apuleius once uses it actively, of someone flying through the whole sky.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it passable, accessible, having a road through.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of a house turned into a thoroughfare.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of a house open to no wind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1610s – English [[m|en|pervious]] is formed from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # That can be passed through or crossed, [[m|en|passable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|penetrable|alt=Penetrable]], letting something pass through it.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|accessible|alt=Accessible]]; open to entreaty.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Open at both ends; perforated.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Making one's way through.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[via]]

+ * [[obvius]]

+ * [[praevius]]

+ * [[en|pervious]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}