immortalitas Latin · revision 10168

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la immortālis}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''immortālitās''' ''f'' (genitive immortālitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''inmortālitās''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|immortālis|-tās|t1=immortal]], from [[m|la|in-|t=not]] and [[mortālis]] “mortal”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's earliest source is Plautus, and Lewis & Short quote ''salvos sum, inmortālitās mihi datur''.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant exemption from death, immortality; of things, indestructibility, permanence, as of fame; and the state of a god, divinity, all in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means immortality, and British Medieval Latin used it of the state of man before the Fall and of the soul.^(Stelten 1995)^(DMLBS) English ''immortality'' (mid-14th century) is from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of deathlessness, permanence and divinity.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-14th century – English ''immortality'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|immortality|alt=Immortality]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Permanence, indestructibility.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|divinity|alt=Divinity]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[immortālis]]

+ * [[mortālis]]

+ * [[mors]]

+ * [[en|immortality]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}