peregre

Latin

Alternative forms

• peregrī

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). Although in the three examples of graphic e in (Late Latin) poetry it must be scanned as long, no Classical verse requires it and the short ĕ is testified to by Priscian. 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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.re.ɡreː/, [ˈpɛrɛɡreː] or IPA^(key): /ˈpe.re.ɡre/, [ˈpɛrɛɡrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.re.ɡre/, [ˈpɛːreɡre]
• Note: the length of the vowel is uncertain.

Adverb

peregrē̆ (not comparable)

1. (of movement, of location) abroad; to, from abroad
   1. (Late Latin) (augmented by various prepositions)

Derived terms

• (Late Latin) pereger

Related terms

• peregrīnus

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^[2], 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