letaliter

letaliter

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin lētum

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin lētālis

Proto-Indo-European *-teros?

Latin -ter

Latin lētāliter

From lētālis (“lethal, deadly”) + -ter.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫɛˈta.lɪ.tɛr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [leˈtaː.li.ter]

Adverb

lētāliter (comparative lētālius, superlative lētālissimē)

lethally, mortally
- 380 CE – 392 CE, Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.5:
  et quia languente dextera, letaliter ferire non potuit, iam districtum mucronem in proprium latus inpegit.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 310 CE – c. 394 CE, Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 27:
  nec contenta ictos letaliter ire per artus, / coniungit mortes una sagitta duas.
  and not content to lethally drive its course through the stricken limbs, a single arrow deals two deaths at once.

References

“letaliter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“letaliter”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.