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+ ==Forms==
+ '''maeror''' ''m'' (genitive maerōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)
+ Also spelled ''moeror''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[maereō]] “to grieve, mourn” with the suffix [[-or]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs [[itc-pro|*mais-|t=sad, grief]] for ⟨maereō⟩ and links it with [[miser]] “wretched”, but finds no accepted Proto-Indo-European pedigree.^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's earliest source is Ennius, whom he dates 204–169 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It was grief, sorrow, mourning, lamentation, whether secret or open, as in Cicero, who defines it as distress with weeping.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it was sadness, grief, mourning.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for grief and mourning, as in Bede.^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius uses it.^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero defines it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # [[m|en|grief|alt=Grief]], sorrow, [[m|en|mourning]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[maereō]]
+ * [[maestus]]
+ * [[maestitia]]
+ * [[luctus]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}