infaustus Latin · revision 31951

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=la faveō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ĩːˈfau̯s.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iɱˈfau̯s.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnfaustus''' (feminine īnfausta, neuter īnfaustum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|faustus|t2=favourable, lucky]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan derives [[m|la|faustus]] from ⟨*foustus⟩, ⟨*faves-to-⟩, made from [[m|la|faveō|t=to be favourable]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*faw-ē-]]; for the root he reports several proposals, including Lubotsky's and Kortlandt's [[ine-pro|*bʰh₂u̯-eh₁-|t=to be favourable to]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Virgil,^(Köbler 2010) whose Trojan women cry “burn the ill-starred ships”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means luckless or ill-starred, and bringing ill fortune, inauspicious.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of omens it is ill-boding, as Virgil's ill-omened name of the Allia, and it is applied to the underworld.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is poetic and post-Augustan;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus has it of an unlucky day and an ill-fated camp.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin keeps the sense unfortunate, unpropitious.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of ill-starred ships and the ill-omened name of the Allia.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of ill-fated battles.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of an unlucky day.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Luckless, ill-starred, [[m|en|unfortunate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Bringing ill fortune, [[m|en|inauspicious]]; of omens, ill-boding.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[faustus]]

+ * [[faveo|alt=faveō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}