impigre Latin · revision 33871

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''impigrē''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''inpigrē''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|impiger|-ē|t1=active, energetic]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) That adjective is the negative of [[m|la|piger|t=sluggish]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*pig-ro-|t=inactive]]; the further origin of the root is unknown.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it in the ''Rudens'', of getting up energetically late at night.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means energetically or briskly: Sallust uses it of Marius watching both his own and the enemy's affairs, and Livy of soldiers following the consul and of help promised and given readily.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short find no comparative or superlative.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In British Medieval Latin it means not slothfully, assiduously.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of getting up promptly.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust, of Marius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of soldiers following the consul.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|energetically|alt=Energetically]], actively, briskly, readily.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Without sloth, [[m|en|assiduously]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[impiger]]

+ * [[piger]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}