perfacile Latin · revision 34147

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la faciō}}

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+ ==Forms==

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|perfacilis|t=very easy]], its neuter used as an adverb.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) That adjective is [[af|la|per-|facilis|t1=very|t2=easy]],^(Wiktionary)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) and de Vaan lists [[m|la|facilis]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|faciō|t=to make, do]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest quotation in the OLD is from Plautus' ''Mostellaria'': ''perfacile ego ictūs perpetior argenteōs'', “I very willingly put up with blows of silver”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Accius uses it in the same sense, very willingly, of putting up with being called stubborn.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Its usual meaning, very easily, appears in Lucretius and Cicero:^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) in the speech for Sextus Roscius Cicero speaks of a man who, unsuspecting, could very easily be put out of the way.^(OLD 2012) Cicero also uses it of a speech running with a very smooth flow.^(OLD 2012) Livy, Valerius Maximus and Apuleius continue the sense very easily,^(OLD 2012) and medieval writers in Britain use it the same way, with the superlative ''perfacillimē''.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it in the sense “very willingly”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius uses it in the same sense.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it in the sense “very easily”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of things done very easily and of a smooth flow of speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius still uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # With very little [[m|en|difficulty]], very [[m|en|easily]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # Very [[m|en|willingly]], quite gladly.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # (of speech) With a very smooth [[m|en|flow]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[perfacilis]]

+ * [[facilis]]

+ * [[facile]]

+ * [[faciō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}