aegre

See also: ægre

Latin

Etymology

From aeger (“ill, difficult, reluctant”) +‎ -ē (“adverbial suffix”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

aegrē (comparative aegrius, superlative aegrissimē)

  1. scarcely, hardly, painfully
  2. reluctantly, uncomfortably

References
  • aegre in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • aegre in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aegre in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be scarcely able to restrain one's laughter: risum aegre continere posse
    • I am pained, vexed, sorry: aegre, graviter, moleste fero aliquid (or with Acc. c. Inf. or quod)
    • to be discontented, vexed at a thing; to chafe: aegre, graviter, moleste, indigne ferre aliquid
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