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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *pereagro (“that is beyond the surrounding land”). By surface analysis, per + ager. The primacy of the ending and quality of its vowel is uncertain due to the general confusion between these two endings (cf. herĕ~herī̆, rūrĕ~rūrī).[1] Although in the three examples of graphic e in (Late Latin) poetry it must be scanned as long,[2] no Classical verse requires it and the short ĕ is testified to by Priscian.[3] Also pointing to a short vowel is the Late Latin 3d. declension adjective pereger, of whose n.sg. the present word was evidently felt to be an adverbial use.
Pronunciation
Adverb
peregrē̆ (not comparable)
- (of movement, of location) abroad; to, from abroad
- (Late Latin) (augmented by various prepositions)
Derived terms
References
- “peregre”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “peregre”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- peregre in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be travelling abroad: peregrinari, peregre esse
- to go abroad: peregre proficisci
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ager”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 29