inoboediens

Forms

inoboediēns (genitive inoboedientis); third-declension one-termination adjective; also inobaudiēns, inobēdiēns.^[1][2][3]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin in-² + oboediēns (“obedient”), the present participle of oboediō (“to obey”).^[1][4] The verb inoboediō is a back-formation from it.^[1] Glossaries render it with Greek ἀπειθής (apeithḗs, “disobedient”).^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The TLL finds it from the Old Latin Bible and the Latin Irenaeus on, mostly in Church writers.^[1][4]

Semantic evolution

It is a Christian word for disobedient,^[1][3] used in the Vulgate, for example in Deuteronomy and the Letter to Titus,^[5] and by Augustine.^[2][4] Forms with ⟨oe⟩ and ⟨e⟩ alternate, and some texts have inobaudiēns.^[1] It has no comparative or superlative.^[1]

Medieval Latin kept it in the same sense,^[6] in law codes and church councils as well.^[4]

Timeline

• after 220 AD – The Old Latin Bible uses it.^[1][4]
• 354–430 AD – Augustine uses it in his sermons.^[2][4]
• c. 383–419/420 AD – Jerome's Vulgate has it.^[5][4]

Meanings

Adjective

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) disobedient.^[3][2][6]

Word family

• inoboediō

Related words

• oboediō

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
2. ^ a b c d Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
3. ^ a b c Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
4. ^ a b c d e f g Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
5. ^ a b Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
6. ^ a b Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill