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paene

almost, practically

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Where it lives

Praefatiunculae 2 · 36.5/10k
Parentalia 6 · 23.09/10k
Ad Scapulam 3 · 20.11/10k
Hamilcar 1 · 19.34/10k
Otho 3 · 19.02/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 8 · 18.48/10k
Pro M. Marcello 5 · 18.07/10k
Cum Populo Gratias Egit 4 · 15.15/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 11 · 14.62/10k
Pro M. Scauro 4 · 13.46/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Divus Vespasianus 3 · 9.38/10k

Densest 12 of 223 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. paene — de Vaan

paene 'almost, practically' [adv.} (P1.+) Derivatives: paenitere (pf, rut)'to cause dissatisfaction, cause to regret" (P1.+), — [de Vaan, s.v. paene, p. 453]

2. paene — Lewis & Short

paene (less correctly pēne), adv.etym. dub.,

I nearly, almost, as I may say (class.): fores paene effregisti, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 2, 4; id. Am. 4, 2, 6; id. Bacch. 4, 9, 26; id. Truc. 2, 6, 37: aliquem paene perdere, Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 10: paene amicus, Cic. Fam. 1, 4, 1: paene communis, id. ib. 15, 1, 1: Brutum non minus amo, quam tu: paene dixi quam te, id. Att. 5, 20, 6; id. Rosc. Com. 6, 16: non solum in omnibus civitatibus, sed paene etiam in singulis domibus, factiones sunt, Caes. B. G. 6, 10: quam paene furvae regna Proserpinae ... vidimus, Hor. C. 2, 13, 21: paene manu, quod amo, tanta est vicinia, tango: Saepe sed, heu! lacrimas hoc mihi paene movet, Ov. H. 18, 179.—Rarely with subj.: nisi nostri equites acutius vidissent, paene concedente adversario superasset, Cic. Fam. 8, 4, 1: legiones duas paene delessent, ni, etc., Amm. 16, 2, 10.—Paene sometimes follows the word it qualifies: omnibus par paene laus tribuitur, Cic. de Or. 3, 7, 28: totidem paene reperiantur genera, id. ib. 3, 9, 34: cuncta paene, id. ib. 3, 32, 127; 3, 55, 209: divini paene est viri, id. Rep. 1, 29, 45; 2, 20, 35; id. Div. 1, 1, 2; id. Leg. 2, 2, 4: et crescere paene opus, Liv. 31, 1, 5; 3, 53, 7; 9, 7, 1; 4, 27, 11: nudā paene cathedrā, Juv. 1, 65.— Sup.: ita mea consilia perturbat paenissume (penissime), utterly, completely, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 127: me paenissume perdidit, id. Aul. 3, 4, 7: paenissime os alicui sublinere, id. ib. 4, 6, 2; App. M. 8, p. 203; id. Mag. p. 336, 25; cf. Prisc. p. 608 and 1008 P.

In the wild

6 of 1,203 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. paene (scan p. 453; entry #1228).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. paene (scan p. 498; entry #8089).

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