insolitus Latin · revision 31271

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la soleō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ĩːˈsɔ.lɪ.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [inˈsɔː.li.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnsolitus''' (feminine īnsolita, neuter īnsolitum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ It has no comparative or superlative, and a variant ''īnsul-'' is recorded.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|in-|t=not]] and [[m|la|solitus|t=accustomed]], the participle of [[m|la|soleō|t=to be accustomed]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) The origin of ⟨soleō⟩ is disputed: de Vaan rejects a link with [[m|la|suēscō|t=to become used to]] and cites the old proposal adopted by LIV, an iterative [[ine-pro|*sol-eh₁-|t=to occupy, inhabit]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Cicero as its first author,^(Köbler 2010) who asks Verres in the ''Verrines'' whether he drags farmers from their fields into the forum, to an unfamiliar lawsuit.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is unusual, unfamiliar or unwonted, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Of people it is unaccustomed to something, used absolutely, with ''ad'' or with the genitive, as Cicero's modest women forced to appear, unused and unwilling, before so large a gathering of men.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “unaccustomed, unusual”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of an unfamiliar lawsuit and of women unused to gatherings.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|unusual|alt=Unusual]], unfamiliar, [[m|en|unwonted]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Unaccustomed (to), unused.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[soleō]]

+ * [[solitus]]

+ * [[īnsolēns]]

+ * [[inūsitātus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein notes that ''solēre'' is said of events and actions, to be used to happen, while ''cōnsuēvisse'' is said only of a person's actions, to be wont.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}