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noun

spreading, spreader1 at a verb

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

noun — de Vaan

noun 'spreading, spreader1 at a verb 'to wander'; and, furthermore, that one would expect to find other traces of the alleged noun *palo-. Weiss proposes the alternative etymology *pe-h2lh2- 4to wander off; this would semantically be perfect, and links up with the existence of amb-ulare. However, the existence of a PIE preverb *pe is uncertain: the only independent witness for this form would be Hit pe 'away, … — [de Vaan, s.v. noun, p. 455]

In the wild

consorte Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.94
consorte Ausonius, Epistularum 27.22
consorte Ovid, Fasti 3.873
consorte Seneca, Thyestes 1
consorte Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.9.6
consorte Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.246

6 of 15 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. noun (scan pp. 455-456; entry #1239). Root candidates: *palo-, *h2elh2-, *palpo-.

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