digressus Latin · revision 33741

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *g(h)rd(h)-(e)i-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dīgressus''' ''m'' (genitive dīgressūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dīgredior|-tus|t1=to go apart, depart]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|dīgredior]] is a compound of [[m|la|dis-|t=apart]] and [[m|la|gradior|t=to step, walk]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*grad-(e)i-]] and [[ine-pro|*g(h)rd(h)-(e)i-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in Cicero.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) He writes to his brother that he dreaded the tears of their meeting but could not have borne their parting.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it a word of good prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is the departure of a person or a parting: Cicero speaks of his departure, absence and return, and sets it against ''accessus'', “approach”, and beside ''discessus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In rhetoric Quintilian uses it for a digression, something set out ''in digressu'', and in the plural.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler records it in Bede.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a parting and of his departure.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian, of a digression.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A going away, [[m|en|departure]]; a parting, separation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' A [[m|en|digression]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dīgredior]]

+ * [[dīgressiō]]

+ * [[gradior]]

+ * [[discessus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}