paraveredus

Latin

Etymology

From para- (from Ancient Greek παρά (pará)) + verēdus (from Proto-Celtic *uɸorēdos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pa.ra.u̯eˈreː.dus/, [päräu̯ɛˈreːd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.ra.veˈre.dus/, [päräveˈrɛːd̪us]

Noun

paraverēdus m (genitive paraverēdī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) An extra horse; post horse or courier's horse for outlying or out of the way places.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	paraverēdus	paraverēdī
Genitive	paraverēdī	paraverēdōrum
Dative	paraverēdō	paraverēdīs
Accusative	paraverēdum	paraverēdōs
Ablative	paraverēdō	paraverēdīs
Vocative	paraverēde	paraverēdī

Related terms

• verēdārius
• verēdus

Descendants

• Old French: palafrei
  • French: palafrei, palefroi
  • → Middle English: palfrey
    • English: palfrey
• Old Occitan: palafré
  • → Italian: palafreno
  • → Portuguese: palafrém
  • → Spanish: palafrén
• → Old Dutch: *pered
  • Middle Dutch: pert
    • Dutch: paard, perd, peerd (dialectal)
      • Afrikaans: perd
        • → Phuthi: ipere
        • → Sotho: pere
      • Jersey Dutch: pêrt, pêrd
      • → English: prad
    • Limburgish: paerd
    • West Flemish: peird
• → Old High German: pfarifrit, pharifrit, pharafrit, pferit, pherit
  • Middle High German: phërt, pfërt, pfërit, pfaerît n
    • Central Franconian: Pääd, Perd (chiefly Moselle Franconian); Päärd (Siegerland Moselle Franconian)

      Hunsrik: Peerd, Peer, Pied

      Luxembourgish: Päerd

      Transylvanian Saxon: Faard

    • East Central German:

      Erzgebirgisch: [ˈpfaːɰ]

      Silesian East Central German: Faard

      Vilamovian: faod

    • German: Pferd
    • Rhine Franconian: Pääd, Päär, Per, Perd

      Frankfurterisch: [fæː(ɐ̯)t]

    • Yiddish: פֿערד (ferd)

References

• “paraveredus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paraveredus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• An Etymological Dictionary of the Romance Languages - Friedrich Diez, Friedrich Christian