pervagatus Latin · revision 34664

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la vagus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pervagātus''' (feminine pervagāta, neuter pervagātum, comparative pervagātior, superlative pervagātissimus); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as an adjective, it is the past participle [[der|la|pervagor|t=to wander through, spread]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|per-]] and [[m|la|vagor|t=to wander]], from [[m|la|vagus|t=roaming]],^(de Vaan 2008) which de Vaan derives from [[itc-pro|*wago-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) whose ''De inventione'' uses the comparative of arguments that apply widely, ''pervagātior'', fitting all or most cases of a kind.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its main sense is widely known or familiar: Cicero speaks of everyday, familiar exercises, ''opera cotīdiāna et pervagāta'', of a very well-known verse, ''pervagātissimus versus'', and of rumour and talk spread among the people.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) He often joins it with ''vulgāris'', ''cotīdiānus'' or ''commūnis'', and uses the neuter plural for commonplace precepts, ''ista commūnia et pervagāta''.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) The TLL groups it with [[pervulgātus]] and ''commūnis'' in meaning.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of arguments of wide application and of things widely known.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Widely known, [[m|en|familiar]], [[m|en|commonplace]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # Of wide application, [[m|en|general]].^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pervagor]]

+ * [[vagor]]

+ * [[vagus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}