incommodum Latin · revision 18046

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la modus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''incommodum''' ''n'' (genitive incommodī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the neuter of [[m|la|incommodus|t=inconvenient, troublesome]], used as a noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) [[m|la|incommodus]] is [[m|la|in-|t=not]] and [[m|la|commodus|t=convenient]], which de Vaan lists among the words formed on [[m|la|modus|t=measure]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has ''incommodī sī quid tibi ēvēnit, id nōn est culpa mea'', “if any harm has come to you, it is not my fault”.^(OLD 2012) Köbler first records it in Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Incommodum'' is “harm, detriment, disadvantage”, and “inconvenience, discomfort” (Cicero: ''nec id incommodō tuō'', “and without inconvenience to you”).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Especially in the plural it is “a misfortune, trouble” (Plautus), and in war “a setback, defeat”: Caesar tells the Helvetii to remember ''veteris incommodī populī Rōmānī'', the old defeat of the Roman people.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) In medical writers it is “an ailment”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “discomfort, inconvenience, disadvantage, misfortune”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''incommodī sī quid tibi ēvēnit''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar: ''veteris incommodī populī Rōmānī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it for an ailment.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Harm, [[m|en|detriment]], disadvantage.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # [[m|en|inconvenience]], discomfort.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A [[m|en|misfortune]], trouble.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(military)'' A setback, defeat.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(medicine)'' An [[m|en|ailment]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[incommodus]]

+ * [[commodum]]

+ * [[commodus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}