pedetemptimとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• pedetentim

語源

pedetentim seems to imply ped- (“foot”) +‎ tendō (“stretch out, extend”) +‎ -tim, but compare the relation between temptō and tentō.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [pɛ.dɛˈtɛmp.tĩː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [pe.deˈtɛmp.tim]

副詞

pedetemptim (comparative pedetemptius, superlative pedetemptissimē)

1. gradually, cautiously, step-by-step

   Synonyms: paulātim, gradātim

   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 4.2.33:

     Pedetemptim (tu hoc scis) tractari satiust hasce huius modi mercis.

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   • 234 BCE – 149 BCE, Cato the Elder, Orationum Fragmenta 45:

     Eam ego viam pedetemptim temptabam.

     I myself was cautiously attempting this path.

   • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 2.48:

     Non nimis in Niptris ille sapientissimus Graeciae saucius lamentatur vel modice potius:
     Pedetemptim, inquit ite et sedato nisu,
     Ne succussu arripiat maior
     Dolor.

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参照

• “pedetemptim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pedetemptim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pedetemptim”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.