immotus Latin · revision 31439

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=ine-pro *m(i̯)euh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''immōtus''' (feminine immōta, neuter immōtum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''inmōtus'';^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Priscian teaches that it should be written with ''im-''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from the negative prefix [[m|la|in-|t=not, un-]] and [[m|la|mōtus|t=moved]], the participle of [[m|la|moveō|t=to move]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) ⟨moveō⟩ goes back to [[itc-pro|*mow(a)-]] and [[ine-pro|*m(i̯)euh₁-|t=to move]], cognate with [[hit|mau-|t=to fall]] and [[sa|मीवन्ती|tr=-mī́vantī|t=pushing down]].^(de Vaan 2008) The TLL compares the Greek negative adjective [[m|grc|ἀκίνητος|tr=akínētos|t=unmoved]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Virgil as its first author;^(Köbler 2010) in the ''Aeneid'' the Sibyl's leaves stay unmoved in their places and do not leave their order.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is not moved or motionless, as Virgil's tree that stands unmoved, and of a harbour or the sea undisturbed and calm, as Virgil's harbour sheltered from the winds.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of abstract things it is unchanged or fixed, as Virgil's “the fates of your people remain unchanged”, and in Velleius of a state where nothing was left undisturbed.^(OLD 2012) Of feelings it is unmoved, unrelenting or inflexible, as Ovid's ears deaf to the lowing of the victim.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Lewis and Short call it mostly poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it “unmoved, unchanged, steadfast”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of motionless leaves and of unchanging fates.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of ears unmoved by entreaty.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Not moved; [[m|en|motionless]], [[m|en|immovable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Undisturbed, unshaken, calm.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Unaltered, unchanged, fixed.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Emotionally unmoved, [[m|en|inflexible]], steadfast.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[moveō]]

+ * [[immōbilis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}