pervado Latin · revision 32870

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=170–c. 90 BC, Accius|origins=ine-pro *weh₂dʰ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pervādō''' (present infinitive pervādere, perfect active pervāsī, supine pervāsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|vādō|t2=to go]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|vādō]] to [[itc-pro|*wāþe/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*weh₂dʰ-|t=to advance]], with cognates such as [[goh|watan|t=to wade]] and [[non|vaða|t=to wade]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short's first example is a line of Accius quoted by Varro, in which someone is told to pass through the sky.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) The TLL notes that it is rare in verse (Accius, Lucretius, Silius) and common in prose.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of people it is to make one's way through or across: Cicero tells Verres that he swept through every part of the province like a disastrous storm.^(OLD 2012) Seneca uses it of getting through a term of office, as Quintius hurried through his dictatorship.^(OLD 2012) Of conditions it is to spread over an area or through minds, as a belief among barbarian peoples in Cicero, and of persons or things to make one's way to a place or reach it.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short give [[penetro|alt=penetrō]] as a synonym.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Late Latin it came to mean to seize or occupy unjustly.^(Wiktionary) Church Latin glosses it to come or go through.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|pervade]] comes from it, from the 1650s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of passing through the sky.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of sweeping through a province and of a belief spreading.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of getting through a dictatorship.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1650s – English [[m|en|pervade|alt=pervade]] is formed from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To go or pass through, make one's way across, [[m|en|traverse]]; to get through a term of office or a difficulty.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To spread through, be diffused over, [[m|en|pervade]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To make one's way to, [[m|en|penetrate]], reach a place.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' To invade; to [[m|en|usurp]], occupy unjustly.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pervāsiō]]

+ * [[pervāsor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vado|alt=vādō]]

+ * [[invado|alt=invādō]]

+ * [[evado|alt=ēvādō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}