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innascor

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ɪnˈnaːs.kɔr][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [inˈnas.kor][1]

Forms

innāscor (present infinitive innāscī, perfect active innātus sum); third conjugation, deponent[1] An inscription from Pompeii has the spelling inatae.[2]

Etymology

It is from Latin in- + nāscor (“to be born”).[3][1][2] De Vaan traces nāscor to Proto-Italic *gnāsk-e/o- and Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁-sk-e/o- (“to be born”).[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

De Vaan dates it from Plautus.[4] In the Persa a character asks when a swelling grew on someone, and in the Poenulus another says envy never arose in him.[3][5]

Semantic evolution

It is to be born, formed or spring up in or on something: of living creatures, as Ovid's Triton with a shell grown on his shoulders;[3] of plants, as Horace's fern that springs up in neglected fields and Livy's willows grown on the banks;[3][6] of inanimate things, as Celsus' fat that forms on the caul;[3] and of feelings and qualities.[3] Its participle innātus “inborn, innate” is found from Terence on.[4]

Timeline

  • c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a swelling and of envy.[3][4][5]
  • 65–8 BC – Horace of fern in neglected fields.[3][6][5]
  • 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of Triton's shell.[3][5]
  • 14–37 AD – Celsus of fat forming on the caul.[3][5]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To be born or formed in or on; to spring up, grow in a place.[3][6][1]
  2. Of feelings, qualities or circumstances, to arise in, originate in.[3][1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  4. ^ a b c d de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  5. ^ a b c d e Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  6. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press