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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek παρά (pará) + verēdus, perhaps an analogical formation to parhippus from Ancient Greek πάριππος (párippos). Cf. epiraedium (“cart, barrow”), similarly formed of a Greek prefix and a Gaulish root, which may indicate a Gallo-Greek provenance in both cases.
Pronunciation
Noun
paraverēdus m (genitive paraverēdī); second declension
- (Late Latin) a horse for travel off public roads or to out of the way places
- (specifically) a gift of palfrey (such a horse offered as a tribute by provincials to visiting public officials)
Usage notes
Often found alongside (par)angaria.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “paraverēdus” in volume 10, part 1, column 323, line 73 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
- Ullmann, Manfred (1997) Zur Geschichte des Wortes barīd „Post“ [About the history of the word barīd ‘post’] (Beiträge zur Lexikographie des Klassischen Arabisch; 13) (in German), München: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kommission bei der C.H.Beck’schen Verlagsbuchhandlung, →ISBN, page 6
- An Etymological Dictionary of the Romance Languages - Friedrich Diez, Friedrich Christian
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