agedum

From age (“act, do!”, 2nd-person singular present active imperative of agō) +‎ (enclitically, with imperatives) dum (“now”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɡɛ.dũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.d͡ʒe.dum]

agedum (plural agitedum)

1. come on! (or similar words of encouragement or exhortation)
   • c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 1079–1083:

     [Bromia] Eadem nos formido timidas terrore impulit
     in aedibus, tu ubi habitas. nimia mira vidi. vae mihi,
     Amphitruo, ita mihi animus etiam nunc abest. [Amphitruo] Agedum expedi:
     scin me tuom esse erum Amphitruonem? [Bromia] Scio. [Amphitruo] Vide etiam nunc. [Bromia] Scio. [Amphitruo] Haec sola sanam mentem gestat meorum familiarium.

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