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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈĩː.ski.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈin̠ʲ.ʃi.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnscius''' (feminine īnscia, neuter īnscium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[in-]] and [[sciō|t=to know]] with the adjective ending [[m|la|-us]], beside [[scius|t=knowing]] and [[nescius|t=not knowing]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan thinks ⟨sciō⟩ is probably a back-formation from [[nesciō]], from [[itc-pro|*skijō|alt=*skije/o-|t=to know]] and perhaps [[ine-pro|*skh₁-i-|alt=*skh1-i(e/o)-|t=to incise]], if “to know” developed from “to distinguish, decide”; cognate with [[grc|σχάω|tr=skháō|t=to slit open]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who has “without my knowledge, against my expectation, unaware”.^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short note that Plautus and Terence do not use it, preferring [[īnsciēns]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means “not knowing, unaware, unwitting”, often with a genitive of what is not known, and “ignorant, unskilled”, as Cicero's question how one can tell the artist from the unskilled.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Apuleius it is passive, “unknown”, of an unfamiliar path.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “not knowing, ignorant, unaware”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of acting unawares and of the unskilled.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius of an unknown path.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Not knowing, [[m|en|unaware]], [[m|en|ignorant]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Unskilled, inexperienced.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Unknown, unfamiliar.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sciō]]

+ * [[nescius]]

+ * [[īnsciēns]]

+ * [[cōnscius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}