inexperientia

Forms

inexperientia f (genitive inexperientiae); first declension^[1][2]

Etymology

It is from Latin inexperiēns (“inexperienced”) according to the TLL,^[3] while Köbler's analysis is from Latin in- (“not”) + experientia (“experience”).^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is first found in Tertullian's De anima, in a list of things that dull the soul, set against experience.^[3][1][4]

Semantic evolution

The acts of a Church council use it to translate a Greek word for inexperience.^[3] Niermeyer records it in Medieval Latin,^[5] where it also meant ignorance of a particular thing: in the 12th century the Fulda traditions excuse slow reading by unfamiliarity with Irish script.^[6] Robert Grosseteste and Albert the Great use it,^[7][6] and so do Petrarch and the Neo-Latin writers.^[8] Conte gives it as the Late Latin source of Italian inesperienza.^[9]

Timeline

• c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian lists it among the things that dull the soul.^[3][4]
• mid-12th century – The Fulda traditions speak of unfamiliarity with Irish script.^[6]
• 1242 – Robert Grosseteste uses it in a letter.^[7]
• 1348 – Petrarch uses it in De vita solitaria of one inexperienced in human affairs.^[8]

Meanings

Noun

1. (Late Latin) Inexperience, lack of skill.^[3][1][5]
2. (Medieval Latin) Ignorance of or unfamiliarity with something.^[6][7]

Related words

• experientia

References

1. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
2. ^ Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
3. ^ a b c d e Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
5. ^ a b Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill
6. ^ a b c d Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
7. ^ a b c Latham, R. E., D. R. Howlett, R. K. Ashdowne, et al. (1975–2013), Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: British Academy / Oxford University Press
8. ^ a b Ramminger, Johann, Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, www.neulatein.de
9. ^ Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier