egregie
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eˈɡrɛ.d͡ʒe/
- Rhymes: -ɛdʒe
- Hyphenation: e‧grè‧gie
Adjective
egregie
- feminine plural of egregio
Latin
Etymology
From ēgregius (“extraordinary, surpassing”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [eːˈɡrɛ.ɡi.eː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eˈɡrɛː.d͡ʒi.e]
Adverb
ēgregiē (comparative ēgregius, superlative ēgregissimē)
- excellently, eminently
- surpassingly, exceedingly, exceptionally, singularly
- 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 271–273:
- PAMPHILUS: Egon, propter mē, illam dēcipī miseram sinam — / quae mihi suum animum atque omnem vītam crēdidit, / quam ego animō ēgregiē cāram prō uxōre habuerim?
- PAMPHILUS: Would I, on account of my [circumstances], allow that poor woman to be misled — she who has entrusted her soul and her whole life to me, whom I have held so exceptionally dear to my heart as a wife?
- PAMPHILUS: Egon, propter mē, illam dēcipī miseram sinam — / quae mihi suum animum atque omnem vītam crēdidit, / quam ego animō ēgregiē cāram prō uxōre habuerim?
- uncommonly well
References
- “ēgrĕgĭe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “egregie”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "egregie", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “egregie”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
Adjective
egregie
- nominative/accusative feminine singular of egregiu