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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la nēquam}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [neːˈkʷɪ.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [neˈkʷit.t͡si.a]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''nēquitia''' ''f'' (genitive nēquitiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)
+ A fifth-declension form ''nēquitiēs'' also occurs.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is formed from [[m|la|nēquam|t=worthless, bad]] with the suffix [[m|la|-itia]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL explains both forms of the noun as regular formations on a stem ⟨*nēquo-⟩.^(TLL)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Plautus, ''Bacchides'': Lycurgus could, it seems, be led into depravity here (''ad nēquitiam addūcier'').^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ Its literal sense, bad quality, is very rare: Pliny speaks of the poor quality of a vinegar.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Usually it is moral worthlessness, profligacy or depravity, and, more broadly, villainy: Cicero condemns himself for slackness and ''nēquitia'' in not acting against Catiline.^(OLD 2012) Gellius discusses its meaning.^(OLD 2012) In lighter use it is naughtiness or roguery, as Martial's pet sparrow's tricks.^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary adds idleness, levity and prodigality.^(Wiktionary)
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+ Church Latin glosses it “malice, evil, wickedness, iniquity”.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of depravity.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of culpable negligence.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial of a sparrow's naughtiness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Bad quality.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # Worthlessness, [[m|en|depravity]], [[m|en|profligacy]], vice; idleness.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # [[m|en|villainy]], wickedness.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)
+ # Naughtiness, [[m|en|roguery]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[nēquam]]
+ * [[nēquiter]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}