aegritudo Latin · revision 32566

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂eyg-ro-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ae̯.ɡrɪˈtuː.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [e.ɡriˈtuː.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aegritūdō''' ''f'' (genitive aegritūdinis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|aeger|-tūdō|t1=sick, ill]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|aeger]] to [[itc-pro|*aigro-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂eyg-ro-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the TLL date it from Plautus, in the sense of grief.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The TLL finds that writers up to Columella use it only of distress of mind.^(TLL) Cicero makes it his term for grief, as Augustine later notes.^(TLL) Lewis & Short note that it covers sickness of body and mind, while [[aegrotatio|alt=aegrōtātiō]] is only bodily.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The bodily sense appears after the Augustan age: Mela writes of people who waste away with age or illness, and Pliny the Elder of exhausted elephants.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus has the illness of Germanicus, and the jurists use it in law.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it illness, sickness.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero's term for grief.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43/44 AD – Mela of illness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of sick elephants.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Physical [[m|en|sickness]], [[m|en|illness]], disease.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Distress of mind, [[m|en|grief]], sorrow, anxiety.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aeger]]

+ * [[aegroto|alt=aegrōtō]]

+ * [[aegrimonia|alt=aegrimōnia]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}