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tardiusculus

tardiusculus

rather slow

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1. tardiusculus — de Vaan

tardiusculus 'rather slow' (PL+). On the formation of tardiusculus, the date of which is difficult to ascertain, see Kiimmel 2004b: 354. Tardus has no etymology; the connection with Gr. τέρυ 'weak' and Skt taruna- 'young* fresh' proposed by WH is semantically unconvincing, and formally impossibly (if the latter forms continue PIE *ferw-). BibL: WH II: 648f, EM 677, IEW 1070f — [de Vaan, s.v. tardiusculus, p. 621]

2. tardĭuscŭlus — Lewis & Short

tardĭuscŭlus, a, um,

I adj. dim. [tardus], somewhat slow, slowish (ante- and postclass.): mulier, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 198, 26: servus, Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 4.

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  • 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. tardiusculus (scan p. 621; entry #1767). Root candidates: *ferw-.

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