exaggero Latin · revision 34240

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=la aggerō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛkˈsaɡ.ɡɛ.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eɡˈzad.d͡ʒe.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exaggerō''' (present infinitive exaggerāre, perfect active exaggerāvī, supine exaggerātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|aggerō|t2=to heap up]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The OLD refers it to [[m|la|aggerō]] “to carry to”, a compound of [[m|la|ad-]] and [[m|la|gerō]], whereas Etymonline takes ⟨aggerāre⟩ “to heap up” from [[m|la|agger|t=heap]].^(OLD 2012)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is Varro,^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) who explains ''aggeres'' as what was heaped up ''quo moenitius esset'', “so that it might be better fortified”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to heap or pile up, as of mounds of earth in Vitruvius and Pliny the Elder, and to fill up or pile with, as of filling the sea with earth in the elder Seneca or an aviary with straw in Columella.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) From piling up wealth, as in Cicero and Phaedrus, it passed to magnifying: Cicero has someone overrate his tiny share, his ''sextula'', and a mind ''virtutibus exaggeratus'', “raised high by its virtues”.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) The commonest use is rhetorical, to amplify or heighten in speech, as in Cicero's ''ad exaggerandam et amplificandam orationem'' and in Quintilian.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tertullian uses it for surpassing, and Cyprian for making anger worse.^(Conte 2010) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to grow worse, increase, exaggerate.^(Stelten 1995) English took it as [[m|en|exaggerate]] in the 1530s, first in the sense to pile up, accumulate.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of piling up earthworks.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of amassing wealth, overrating and rhetorical amplification.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of heightening a grievance in a speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|exaggerate|alt=exaggerate]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To heap or [[m|en|pile]] up; to build by piling up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To pile up wealth; to [[m|en|accumulate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To fill up or pile with; figuratively, to raise up.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To make or represent as greater, [[m|en|magnify]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # In speech or writing, to [[m|en|amplify]], heighten, [[m|en|exaggerate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' To make worse, [[m|en|exacerbate]].^(Conte 2010)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exaggerātiō]]

+ * [[exaggerator]]

+ * [[exaggeranter]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[agger]]

+ * [[aggerō]]

+ * [[en|exaggerate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}