neglegentia Latin · revision 31537

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *leǵ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [nɛɡ.ɫɛˈɡeːn.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [neɡ.leˈd͡ʒɛn.t͡si.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''neglegēntia''' ''f'' (genitive neglegēntiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''neclegentia'';^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis and Short prefer ''neglegentia'' to ''negligentia''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|neglegēns|-ia]], from the participle of [[neglegō|t=to neglect]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan explains the verb as a fairly recent compound of [[legō|t=to gather]], with the sense passing from “gather” to “watch out for, care for”; ⟨legō⟩ goes back to [[itc-pro|*leg-e-]] and [[ine-pro|*leǵ-e/o-|t=to collect]], cognate with [[grc|λέγω|tr=légō|t=to gather, count, speak]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) Its sense is lack of care, carelessness or neglect.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is carelessness, heedlessness or neglect, as Cicero's pairing of negligence, sloth and inactivity.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary also gives the senses of coldness or brevity, as in a careless letter, and of disrespect.^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin keeps it as “negligence, neglect, carelessness”.^(Stelten 1995) In British Medieval Latin it occurs in the phrase ''neglegentiam facere'', to act negligently.^(DMLBS) Italian ''negghienza'' is inherited from it, and the French and Spanish words for negligence are borrowed from it.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – First recorded in Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero beside sloth and inactivity.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Lack of care, carelessness, heedlessness, [[m|en|negligence]], neglect.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Coldness, curtness.^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|disrespect|alt=Disrespect]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[neglegō]]

+ * [[legō]]

+ * [[dīligentia]]

+ * [[intellegentia]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}