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“[…] you must have seen pictures of her. He painted her over and over again, sometimes with a pareo on and sometimes with nothing at all. Yes, she was pretty enough. […]”
2007, Ronnie Blackwell, Spite, page 154:
“Then Sue lifted his passkey as he turned to go back to the office.” […] “I was the misdirection,” Narlene blurted. “I sort of let my pareo slip off of my shoulder at just the right time.”
Vulgar Latin: *pārēscere (see there for further descendants)
References
“pareo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“pareo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
pareo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
(ambiguous) to attain eternal renown: immortalitatem consequi, adipisci, sibi parere
(ambiguous) to invent, form words: verba parere, fingere, facere
(ambiguous) to establish oneself as despot, tyrant by some means: tyrannidem sibi parere aliqua re
(ambiguous) to gain a victory, win a battle: victoriam adipisci, parere
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pāreō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 445
