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<alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Could somebody help me with the PIE of Latin :
>
> <apricus> -> 'sunny, having lots of sunshine; warmed by/exposed
> to/open to the sun'
>
> The most closely that I could found is the PIE *epero
> PIE *epero -> 'boar'
>
> But *epero means 'boar' and I didn't find other cognates with a
> meaning related to 'apricus'
>
> Thanks a Best Regards,
> marius a.
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From
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform?lang=la
â^prîcus , a, um, adj. [qs. contr. from apericus, from aperio,
Doed.
Syn. III. p. 170; for the long i, cf. antîcus, postîcus; acc. t
oothers, kindr. with old Germ. âbar; mid. Germ. aeber, = dry,
warm] , orig., lying open, uncovered, or, acc. to the second
etymol., warm: Qui tulit aprico frigida castra Lare,under the open
heaven, Prop. 5, 10, 18 , where Müller reads e parvo.--Hence, with
esp. ref. to the warmth of the sun, exposed to the sun or to the
warmth of the sun, open to the sun, sunny.
Dan