vagor Latin · revision 7213

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la vagus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈwa.ɡɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈvaː.ɡor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vagor''' (present infinitive vagārī, perfect active vagātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[vagus]] “wandering” with the verb suffix ⟨-or⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) An active ⟨vagō⟩ is mostly archaic, as in Plautus, Pacuvius and Accius.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of wandering and of straying.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to wander, roam without direction, as Cicero's ''in agrīs vagārī'', of animals and of ships, and to stray beyond limits.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Of things it meant to move freely, and of heavenly bodies the planets, ''stellae vagantēs'', as opposed to the fixed stars, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) Pliny uses it of restless eyes and of a meandering river, and Lucretius of conditions spreading freely.^(OLD 2012) Of speech it meant to range widely, be discursive, as in Cicero, and of things or persons to be unsettled, waver.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein explains that ''errāre'' is to go astray without knowing the way, ''vagārī'' and ''pālārī'' to wander by choice.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ French ''vague'' gave [[en|vague]] in the 1540s from ''vagus'', and [[en|vagary]] came in the 1570s from Italian ''vagare'' or directly from ''vagārī''.^(Etymonline) Late Latin ''vagābundus'' gave [[en|vagabond]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of wandering.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius has the word.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the planets and of discursive speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1570s – English ''vagary'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|wander]], roam; to stray.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To move freely; of planets, to wander.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To spread.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of speech, to range widely, digress.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To be unsettled, waver.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dīvagor]]

+ * [[ēvagor]]

+ * [[vagābundus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vagō]]

+ * [[vagus]]

+ * [[errō]]

+ * [[en|vague]]

+ * [[en|vagary]]

+ * [[en|vagabond]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A different noun ''vāgor, -ōris'', from [[vāgiō]] “to wail”, meant loud crying, especially of babies, and is in Ennius and Lucretius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}