perfacilis Latin · revision 33610

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *dheh1-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɛrˈfa.kɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [perˈfaː.t͡ʃi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''perfacilis''' (neuter perfacile, adverb perfacile); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|facilis|t1=very|t2=easy]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|facilis]] comes from [[m|la|faciō|t=to do, make]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*fak-i-]] and the aorist of [[ine-pro|*dheh1-|t=to put]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Plautus, who has it twice.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) In the ''Menaechmi'', asked to make a man sane, the other speaker answers that it is very easy: ''perfacile id quidemst''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of a task it means very easy:^(OLD 2012) Cicero speaks of a defence very easy and ready to hand, and of a teaching very easy to grasp, and Caesar of something very easy to carry out.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of persons it means very accommodating or courteous, as when Cicero has someone seem very easy to listen to him.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The neuter ''perfacile'' is used as an adverb, very easily or very willingly.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of a task that is very easy.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a very easy defence and of a person very willing to listen.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of a plan very easy to carry out.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of a task: very [[m|en|easy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of persons: very accommodating, very [[m|en|courteous]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[perfacile]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[facilis]]

+ * [[faciō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}