perraro Latin · revision 34332

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86/82 BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la rārus}}

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+ ==Forms==

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|rārō|t2=seldom]],^(OLD 2012) or, as Georges and Köbler have it, the adverb of [[m|la|perrārus|t=very rare]].^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010) [[m|la|rārō]] is the adverb of [[m|la|rārus|t=thin, rare]], whose origin de Vaan leaves open: links with [[ine-pro|*h₂erH-|t=to disappear, perish]] and with [[grc|ἐρῆμος|tr=erêmos|t=lonely]] have been proposed, and Schrijver is critical of all of them.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Georges cites it first from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'',^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010) and Cicero has ''id quod perraro evenit'', “a thing that very rarely happens”.^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It keeps the one sense “very rarely”, in Cicero, Horace and later writers.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Medieval British writers use it too: Alcuin writes ''te perraro oculis vidi meis'', “I have very rarely seen you with my own eyes”, it occurs in Lanfranc's letters and in Gerald of Wales, and a council of 1258 sets sins that commonly happen against those that happen very rarely.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a thing that very rarely happens.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it in the ''Satires''.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1258 – A council uses it of sins that happen very rarely.^(DMLBS)

+ * 1279 – Archbishop Peckham uses it in a letter.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Very [[m|en|seldom]], extremely rarely.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[perrārus]]

+ * [[rārō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}