immanitas Latin · revision 31817

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=1st century BC, Claudius Quadrigarius|origins=la mānus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''immānitās''' ''f'' (genitive immānitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''inm-''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|immānis|-tās|t1=huge, savage]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) ⟨Immānis⟩ is the negative of an old adjective [[mānus|t=good]], “not good”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨mānus⟩ to [[itc-pro|*mānos|alt=*māno-]] and [[ine-pro|*meh₂-no-|t=good]], cognate with [[sga|maith|t=good]], but calls the further root uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Claudius Quadrigarius,^(Köbler 2010) who says no one dared come forward because of a man's great size and frightful looks.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is savage character, brutality, and of persons a monster: Cicero asks what plague, what monster the province had suffered.^(OLD 2012) Of actions it is enormity, barbarity, as in Cicero's “the enormity of so great a crime”.^(OLD 2012) It is also vast size, hugeness, rarer but classical, as in a surveyor's huge tracts of land and Gellius' serpent of unheard-of size.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “cruelty, fierceness”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1st century BC – Claudius Quadrigarius of a frightful man.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of monstrous men and crimes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius of a huge serpent.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Savage character, [[m|en|brutality]], [[m|en|barbarity]]; a monster.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Enormity of an action.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Vast size, hugeness, [[m|en|immensity]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[immānis]]

+ * [[mānus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}