adverb
aegrē
aegrē (comparative aegrius, superlative aegerrimē)
Classical[ˈae̯.ɡreː]Ecclesiastical[ˈɛː.ɡre]
№ 984 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- scarcely, hardly, painfully
- reluctantly, uncomfortably
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
aegrē, adv., v. aeger
I. fin.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
aegrē adv. with comp. aegrius, and sup. aegerrimē
aeger, painfully, distressingly: audire, T.: aegrest, it is annoying, T.: ferre, to feel distress.— With difficulty, hardly, scarcely: divelli: bellum sumi facile, aegerrime desinere, S.—With grief, reluctantly, unwillingly: carere, to suffer for want of: haud aegre pati, without impatience, L.: habere (with acc. and inf.), L.
Origins
From aeger (“ill, difficult, reluctant”) + -ē (“adverbial suffix”).