inopia Latin · revision 18020

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₃ep-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɪˈnɔ.pi.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [iˈnɔː.pi.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inopia''' ''f'' (genitive inopiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|inops|-ia|t1=poor, helpless]], like [[m|la|cōpia|t=abundance]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|inops]] is [[m|la|in-|t=not]] and [[m|la|ops|t=power, resources]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*opi-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₃ep-|t=ability, force]], cognate with [[hit|happina-|t=rich]] and [[sa|अप्नस्|tr=ápnas|t=property]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who has ''sordidō vītam oblectābās pāne in pannīs inopiā'', “you got through life on coarse bread, in rags, in want”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Inopia'' is “lack of means, poverty, destitution” (Terence: to reduce a father to poverty by his son's misconduct), “dearth” of provisions, and “helplessness” (Plautus: ''ferte opem inopiae'', “help the helpless”).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) With a genitive it is a shortage of something, money, men or ideas (Plautus: ''amōre pereō et inopiā argentāriā'', “I'm dying of love and lack of cash”, Cicero: ''inopia argūmentōrum'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero also uses it of a poverty of vocabulary, which makes metaphor necessary, and of a meagre style.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “want, need, poverty”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''pāne in pannīs inopiā''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence: ''ad inopiam redigat patrem''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''inopia argūmentōrum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|poverty]], want, destitution.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # [[m|en|scarcity]], dearth (of provisions).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Helplessness.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A shortage, lack (of something).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Poverty of language or style.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[inopiōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[inops]]

+ * [[ops]]

+ * [[cōpia]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}