taedium Latin · revision 31099

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86–34 BC, Sallust|origins=itc-pro *taidē-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈtae̯.di.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈtɛː.di.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''taedium''' ''n'' (genitive taediī or taedī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|taedet|t=it wearies, disgusts]] with the suffix [[m|la|-ium]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs [[itc-pro|*taidē-]] for the verb, and [[m|itc-pro|*taidro-]] for the related adjective [[m|la|taeter|t=foul]], but finds no good etymology for the root.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives the ''Bellum Alexandrinum'' and Sallust as its first sources,^(Köbler 2010) the first of the crowd “worn out with weariness of the girl”, the second of weariness of adversity.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is weariness of something, with the genitive, as Livy's “weariness of war”, and without it boredom or ennui, as Livy's enemies who hoped to wear out the foe by tedium.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also aversion or disgust, as Pliny's mother animals who love their young but loathe water more, and by extension a disagreeable quality or a nuisance, as in Celsus.^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short note that it is rare before the Augustan period and perhaps absent from Cicero and Caesar.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Church Latin it is weariness or heaviness, and in medieval Latin also sorrow, grief or mourning, and illness.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust of weariness of adversity.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of weariness of war.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of disagreeable symptoms.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of disgust.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1660s – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|tedium]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|weariness|alt=Weariness]] (of), [[m|en|boredom]], ennui.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|disgust|alt=Disgust]], [[m|en|aversion]], loathing; an object of disgust.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A disagreeable quality; a nuisance.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Sorrow, grief, mourning; illness.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[taedio]]

+ * [[taediōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[taedet]]

+ * [[taeter]]

+ * [[fastīdium]]

+ * [[en|tedium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}