flagitiosus Latin · revision 31511

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [fɫaː.ɡɪ.tiˈoː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [fla.d͡ʒit.t͡siˈɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''flāgitiōsus''' (feminine flāgitiōsa, neuter flāgitiōsum, superlative flāgitiōsissimus, adverb flāgitiōsē); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|flāgitium|-ōsus]], from the noun “disgraceful act, scandal”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan derives ⟨flāgitium⟩ from [[flāgitō|t=to demand importunately]], an iterative of an unattested verb whose first sense was “to whip as punishment”, hence “to scold”; it may belong with [[flagrum|t=whip]].^(de Vaan 2008) He reconstructs [[itc-pro|*flāg-e/o-|t=to whip]] and, with doubt, [[ine-pro|*bʰl(e)h₂g-e/o-]], comparing [[non|blaka|t=to strike back and forth]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of trials made base and scandalous and of Verres' disgraceful lusts.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is disgraceful, shocking or scandalous of actions, and of persons guilty of outrageous behaviour, infamous, as Cicero's most shameful and infamous retinue of Verres.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero defines the ''flāgitiōsī'' as those who desire sensual pleasures with an inflamed mind, so that it also means profligate or dissolute.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “disgraceful”.^(Stelten 1995) English ''flagitious'', “shamefully wicked”, is from it in the late 14th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of scandalous trials and of Verres' retinue.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English [[m|en|flagitious]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of actions, [[m|en|disgraceful]], shocking, [[m|en|scandalous]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of persons, infamous; [[m|en|profligate]], dissolute.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[perflāgitiōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[flāgitium]]

+ * [[flāgitō]]

+ * [[en|flagitious]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}