expedite Latin · revision 33502

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *pōd-s}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛk.spɛˈdiː.teː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ek.speˈdiː.te]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''expedītē''' (comparative expedītius, superlative expedītissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|expedītus|-ē|t1=unencumbered]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) from the participle of [[m|la|expediō|t=to free, make ready]].^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan groups that verb with [[m|la|pēs|t=foot]] and suggests that the meaning of the verbs in ⟨-pedīre⟩ comes from [[m|la|compedēs|t=fetters]].^(de Vaan 2008) That noun goes back to [[itc-pro|*pōd-|t=foot]] and [[ine-pro|*pōd-s|t=foot]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[osc|pedú]], [[grc|πούς|tr=poús|t=foot]] and [[sa|पात्|tr=pā́t|t=foot]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD quotes it first from Plautus, who in the ''Mercator'' uses it of seeking out a course so nimbly, ''tam expedite'': here it means freely and without hindrance.^(OLD 2012) In the ''Menaechmi'' he also uses it of speaking plainly, ''expedite fabulatus es'', “you have spoken clearly”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero uses it for speed, of a voyage made more quickly (''expeditius navigare''),^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) and for ease, of an orator who develops his proposition readily.^(Gaffiot 2016) The superlative ''expeditissimē'' is in his letters.^(Gaffiot 2016) Seneca has it of someone who spoke fluently rather than rapidly.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Celsus uses it of setting a bone more easily, and Ammianus of a machine built so as to be easier to handle.^(Georges 1913) Suetonius has it of speaking readily.^(Georges 1913) In Church Latin it means readily, promptly, without difficulty.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of moving freely and of speaking clearly.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of speed and of ease.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of fluent speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus, of an easily handled machine.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Without [[m|en|encumbrance]], freely, nimbly.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Without delay, speedily, [[m|en|expeditiously]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Without difficulty, readily.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of speech or writing, clearly, unambiguously; [[m|en|fluently]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[expediō]]

+ * [[expedītus]]

+ * [[pēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}