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Latin
Etymology
From pār (“equal”) + -ter.
Adverb
pariter (not comparable)
- equally, as much
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.190:
- et pariter facta atque īnfecta canēbat.
- And was singing equally about what had happened as well as what had not taken place.
(Fama or Rumor conveys both fact and fiction.)
- together
- likewise
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 4.747–748:
- ‘cōnsule’ dīc ‘pecorī pariter pecorisque magistrīs:
effugiat stabulīs noxā repulsa meīs.’- Say, ‘‘Lend your care to the flock and likewise to the masters of the flock. Send away harm, having been repelled from my stables.’’
(A prayer to Pales. Note the alliteration and repetitive emphasis of the three ‘‘p’’ words: ‘‘pecorī pariter pecorisque.’’)
Related terms
References
- “pariter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pariter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pariter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.