impudentia Latin · revision 30984

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius and Plautus|origins=la pudeō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''impudentia''' ''f'' (genitive impudentiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''inpudentia''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|impudēns|-ia|t1=shameless]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The adjective is ⟨in-⟩ “not” with the participle of [[m|la|pudeō|t=to be ashamed]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*pud-ē-|t=to be ashamed or shy]]; the further origin of the root is unclear.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in Ennius and Plautus.^(TLL) In an Ennius tragedy quoted by Cicero someone asks who in the world ever outdid a man in ''impudentia''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is shamelessness, effrontery, impudence: Cato speaks of a man whose impudence and hardness he knew.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the ''Priapea'' it is shamelessness in sexual conduct.^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short call it classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “shamelessness”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius in a tragedy.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of a man's impudence.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|shamelessness|alt=Shamelessness]], [[m|en|effrontery]], [[m|en|impudence]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Sexual immodesty.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[impudēns]]

+ * [[pudeō]]

+ * [[pudor]]

+ * [[impudīcus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}