foede Latin · revision 33039

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''foedē''' (comparative foedius, superlative foedissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|foedus#1|-ē|t1=foul, hideous]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it in the ''Trinummus'', of a wretch whom someone's attendants would have torn apart horribly, and in the ''Persa'', of being a slave shamefully.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means in a way that offends the senses or feelings, horribly, foully, hideously: Pacuvius has remains foully mangled, Lucretius a storm suddenly turning foully dark, Virgil young men cruelly slain, and Livy victors who used their victory foully on the captured.^(OLD 2012) Celsus uses it of an eye that sticks out unsightly.^(OLD 2012) It also means so as to bring dishonour, shamefully, basely: Cicero writes that a cause is excellent but will be conducted most shamefully, and that others died basely while Cato died gloriously.^(OLD 2012) Livy has a camp shamefully deserted and says that the higher a man had been raised, the more shamefully he fell.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of horrible and shameful treatment.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius of mangled remains.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of a dark storm.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of base deaths.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|horribly|alt=Horribly]], [[m|en|foully]], hideously, cruelly.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|shamefully|alt=Shamefully]], basely, [[m|en|ignominiously]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[foedus#1]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}