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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *wih₁-eh₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēvius''' (feminine dēvia, neuter dēvium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|via|-us|t2=road]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|via]] to [[itc-pro|*wijā-|t=road]] and [[ine-pro|*wih₁-eh₂-|t=pursuit]], comparing [[osc|víú|t=road]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero, who asks a man whether he fled to the out-of-the-way town of Beroea.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is out of the way, remote, and of people secluded: Cicero says the people of Anagnia lived off the main road.^(OLD 2012) Livy uses the neuter plural for remote places, and once has a door that was most out of the way.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) It is also wandering off the road: Horace has the she-goats, "wives of a smelly husband", straying in search of thyme.^(OLD 2012) Of a person or conduct it is erratic, inconstant: Cicero calls a man headlong and erratic in all his plans.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it devious, wandering from the way.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a remote town and of an erratic man.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of straying goats.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of remote places.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Out of the way, [[m|en|remote]]; living in seclusion;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''dēvia'', remote places.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Wandering off the road, straying.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of persons or conduct, erratic, [[m|en|inconstant]]; erroneous, [[m|en|devious]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[via]]

+ * [[avius|alt=āvius]]

+ * [[invius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}