invius Latin · revision 31925

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=ine-pro *uih₁-eh₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɪn.wi.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈiɱ.vi.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''invius''' (feminine invia, neuter invium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|via|-us|t2=road, way]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|via]] to [[itc-pro|*wijā-|t=road]] and [[ine-pro|*uih₁-eh₂-|t=pursuit]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Virgil,^(Köbler 2010) who has hunters coming into the high mountains and the trackless lairs of beasts.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means without a road, impassable, of country and of paths;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that neither Cicero nor Caesar uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy uses the neuter as a noun, of soldiers led through steep and almost pathless places.^(OLD 2012) It is also inaccessible, as Ovid's temples closed to the profane, and of things impenetrable.^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin ''invium'' is a wasteland or desert.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of trackless lairs and a long pathless way.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of pathless places.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of inaccessible temples.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Without a road, [[m|en|impassable]], trackless, [[m|en|pathless]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|inaccessible|alt=Inaccessible]]; impenetrable.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(neuter)'' A pathless place;^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995) ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' a wasteland, [[m|en|desert]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[via]]

+ * [[devius|alt=dēvius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}