fastidium Latin · revision 31117

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la fāstus, la taedium}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fastīdium''' ''n'' (genitive fastīdiī or fastīdī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a compound of [[m|la|fāstus|t=disdain]] and [[m|la|taedium|t=weariness]], shortened by haplology from ⟨*fastu-tīdium⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan adds that ⟨fāstus⟩ itself has no certain etymology: a link with [[itc-pro|*farsti-|t=top]] would need a shift from “top” to “haughtiness”, and the compound would then be a tautology.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Plautus as its first author,^(Köbler 2010) who in the ''Miles gloriosus'' tells someone to put on a manner “full of disdain, as if unwilling”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is aversion for food or lack of appetite, as Horace's advice to scorn plain food only when toil has not driven out squeamishness, and the aversion that comes from satiety.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) More generally it is repugnance or disgust, and ''fastīdiō esse'' is “to be repugnant”.^(OLD 2012) Of persons it is haughtiness, as Cicero's pride of the Campanians, disdain or scorn, as in Plautus, and a critical attitude, fastidiousness, as Cicero's “nice taste in listening”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “weariness, monotony, aversion, loathing”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a disdainful manner.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of haughtiness and fastidiousness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of squeamishness about food.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of satiety.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Aversion to food, [[m|en|squeamishness]], lack of appetite.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Weariness from satiety.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # [[m|en|disgust|alt=Disgust]], repugnance, [[m|en|loathing]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Haughtiness; [[m|en|disdain]], scorn.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|fastidiousness|alt=Fastidiousness]], a critical taste.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[fastīdiō]]

+ * [[fastīdiōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fāstus]]

+ * [[taedium]]

+ * [[taedet]]

+ * [[en|fastidious]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}