pervagor Latin · revision 33609

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpɛr.wa.ɡɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpɛr.va.ɡor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pervagor''' (present infinitive pervagārī, perfect active pervagātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' has the active form ''pervagō''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|vagor|t1=through|t2=to wander]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|vagor]] comes from [[m|la|vagus|t=wandering]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*wago-]] and, with a question mark, [[ine-pro|*Huog-o-]].^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[non|vakka|t=to totter]] and [[goh|wankōn|t=to totter, stagger]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' and often in Cicero,^(TLL) who in the Verrines says that pirates' boats roamed about the harbour of Syracuse: ''praedonum naviculae pervagatae sunt''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to wander about, rove or range, and with an object to wander through or range over a place:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Caesar has men ordered to range through all places, and Livy has people wandering through their houses.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Livy also uses it of crossing a lagoon by a winding route.^(OLD 2012) Of conditions it is to spread widely, as fires in Vitruvius spreading over the fields,^(OLD 2012) and of news and fame, which Cicero says spread to the farthest lands.^(OLD 2012) The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of running over a series of places in the mind.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of pirates' boats roaming a harbour and of fame spreading.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of wandering through houses.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|wander]] about, [[m|en|rove]], range.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To wander through, range over (a place).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of conditions or news: to spread widely, [[m|en|pervade]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To run over in the mind, review.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vagor]]

+ * [[vagus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}