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paedor

dirt, filth

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Where it lives

De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. paedor — de Vaan

paedor 'dirt, filth' [m. r] (Acc.+) Etymology unknown. BibL: WH II: 233, EM 474. paelex, -icis 'mistress' [f. k] (P1.+; also pelex, pellex) Usually compared with Olr. oirech 'a type of concubine*, Gr. παλλακή 'concubine', πάλλαξ 'young woman', Av. pairika- 'witch \ But Irish has -r-, Av. has *parika-, and Gr. has a and fl, none of which match the Latin form. Within Latin, it seems more straightforward to derive … — [de Vaan, s.v. paedor, p. 453]

2. paedor — Lewis & Short

paedor, ōris, m.root pu-; Sanscr. pūje, to be rotten, stink; Gr. pu/qomai, pu/on; cf. pus, puter, etc.,

I nastiness, filth (syn.: illuvies, sordes).

I Lit.: barba paedore horrida, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 12, 26: membra horrida paedore, Lucr. 6, 126; plur., Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 62: exuere paedorem, Tac. A. 6, 44: longus in carcere paedor, Luc. 2, 72; Sen. Agam. 991.—

II Transf., a stink, stench (post-class.): sine paedore, Aug. Civ. Dei, 14, 24.

In the wild

paedor Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1
paedore Seneca, Oedipus 1
paedore Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 77.6
paedore Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.6.4
paedore Tertullian, De Patientia 13
paedore Seneca, Hercules 1

6 of 14 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. paedor (scan p. 453; entry #1227). Root candidates: *parika-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. paedor (scan p. 498; entry #8076).

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