perambulo Latin · revision 34169

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɛˈram.bʊ.ɫoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [peˈram.bu.lo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''perambulō''' (present infinitive perambulāre, perfect active perambulāvī, supine perambulātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|ambulō|t1=through|t2=to walk]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan derives the simple verb from [[itc-pro|*ala-|t=to wander]], [[ine-pro|*h₂elh₂-|t=to wander]], with ⟨amb-⟩, “around”; he compares [[xum|amb-oltu|t=must go around]] and [[grc|ἀλάομαι|tr=aláomai|t=to wander, roam]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan records it in Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) whose Mostellaria has ''qualubet perambula aedis oppido tamquam tuas'', “walk about the house wherever you like, just as if it were yours”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The TLL finds it rarely in Plautus, Catullus, Varro, Horace, Ovid and the two Senecas,^(TLL) and Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan in prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Varro writes of people who have travelled through many lands and Horace of an ox roaming the fields safely;^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Ovid says cold runs through the limbs.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Catullus and Seneca use it of making the round of a series of places, and Seneca of a doctor visiting his patients in turn.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) The Vulgate uses it of walking through the earth or a whole island,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and in Ecclesiastical Latin it is to walk about or pass through.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in [[ro|plimba]] and [[m|ro|preumbla]].^(Wiktionary) English [[m|en|perambulate]] (1560s) comes from its past participle.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of walking about a house.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it of making the round of bedrooms.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace writes of an ox roaming the fields.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of a doctor visiting his patients.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1560s – English borrows ''perambulate'' from its past participle.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To walk about in, [[m|en|roam]] through; to travel through, [[m|en|tour]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # (of things) To pass through, run through (the limbs).^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To visit in turn, make the [[m|en|round]] of;^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) (of a doctor) to visit (patients).^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[abambulō]]

+ * [[ambulō]]

+ * [[circumambulō]]

+ * [[inambulō]]

+ * [[praeambulō]]

+ * [[deambulō]]

+ * [[en|perambulate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}