Dissimilated from earlier * agrestris , from ager ( “ field, farm ” ) + -estris ( “ located, dwelling in ” ) . Root cognate with Ancient Greek ἄγροικος ( ágroikos ) .
Compare typologically pāgānus , rūsticus . See the opposite cīvīlis for more.
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1890 American Book Company edition; pinned Perseus XML digitization- agrestisLatin · n768
agrestis e, adj. with comp. Source etymology: ager , of the fields, belonging to the country: palmae, wild: poma, V.: frondes, H.: bestiae: pubes, V.: praeda, from the fields, L.—Subst.
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agrestis is (gen plur., -tum, V., O.), m a countryman, peasant, rustic: agrestīs in spem rapinarum impellere: conventus agrestium, assembly of the rural population: agrestibus in urbem acceptis, L.: agrestis imagine, in
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