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ingannatura

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Forms

ingannātūra f (genitive ingannātūrae); first declension[1][2]

Etymology

It is from Vulgar Latin *ingannō (“to mock; to deceive”).[2][3] The TLL sets up that verb, after Meyer-Lübke, in the sense “deceive”, compares ganniō (“to yelp, snarl”) and the glossary word ⟨gannātor⟩, and thinks the noun may be a blend of that verb with ⟨sannō⟩, “to mock”.[2] Köbler derives it from in- and the same verb.[1]

The DÉRom reconstructs the Proto-Romance verb with the original sense “imitate the voice of an animal”, and takes “deceive” to be a later sense; the noun, meaning “mockery”, is indirect evidence for the verb in its sense “mock”.[3] The verb survives in Italian ingannare, Spanish engañar, Catalan enganyar and Romanian îngâna.[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is known only from the Latin glossaries, where it explains sanna, a grimace of mockery, and desannio, perhaps for desannātiō, “mocking”.[2][4]

Semantic evolution

Köbler and the DÉRom render it “mockery”, the act of making fun of someone.[1][3] The verb behind it is itself recorded in the Reichenau glosses of the 8th century, where inganaret explains insultaret, “he would insult”.[5]

Meanings

Noun

  1. (Late Latin, glossaries) Mockery, derision.[2][1][3][4]

Usage notes

The MLW records a medieval gannātūra without the prefix, “sneering laughter, mockery” and “trickery”, from Aldhelm onwards, and refers to ingannātūra for comparison.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  2. ^ a b c d e Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  3. ^ a b c d e Buchi, Éva; Schweickard, Wolfgang, eds. (2008–), Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman (DÉRom), Nancy: ATILF, http://www.atilf.fr/DERom
  4. ^ a b Goetz, Georg (1888–1923), Corpus glossariorum Latinorum, Leipzig: Teubner; vols. VI–VII Thesaurus glossarum emendatarum, digital ed. CGLO, Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  5. ^ Cortelazzo, Manlio; Zolli, Paolo (1999), Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana, 2nd ed. by Manlio Cortelazzo and Michele A. Cortelazzo, Bologna: Zanichelli
  6. ^ Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften