sedulitas
Forms
sēdulitās f (genitive sēdulitātis); third declension[1]
Etymology
It is from Latin sēdulus (“attentive, busy”) + -tās.[2][1][3] De Vaan follows Meiser in deriving the adverb sēdulō “sincerely, diligently” from ⟨*sē dolōd⟩ “without guile”, with dolus (“guile”).[4]
Earliest recorded meaning
De Vaan dates it from Varro, Köbler from Cicero;[4][3] in Cicero's letters Caelius praises Cornelius Balbus' work and assiduity.[5]
Semantic evolution
It is painstaking attention to a task, application, assiduity, zeal;[2][5] Lewis & Short call it classical, with the synonym dīligentia.[2][5] Döderlein describes it as the tireless bustling of a busy housewife, a kind nurse or one who pays officious court, against the loftier industria;[6] Columella speaks of a matron's housewifely diligence.[6] Church Latin glosses it watchfulness.[7]
Timeline
- 116–27 BC – Varro.[4][3]
- 81–43 BC – Caelius in Cicero's letters.[5]
- 1st century AD – Columella of a matron's diligence.[6][3]
Meanings
Noun
- Painstaking attention, application, assiduity, zeal; officiousness.[2][5][1][6]
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) Watchfulness.[7]
Related words
References
- ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
- ^ a b c d Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
- ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
- ^ a b c de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
- ^ a b c d e Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ a b c d Döderlein, Ludwig (1874), Döderlein’s Hand-book of Latin Synonymes, tr. H. H. Arnold, Andover: W. F. Draper
- ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson