intempestivus Latin · revision 32186

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪn.tɛm.pɛsˈtiː.wʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [in.tem.pesˈtiː.vus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intempestīvus''' (feminine intempestīva, neuter intempestīvum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|tempestīvus|t1=not|t2=timely, seasonable]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The TLL compares [[grc|ἄκαιρος|tr=ákairos|t=ill-timed]] and [[m|la|intempestus|t=unseasonable]].^(TLL) [[m|la|tempestīvus]] is from [[m|la|tempus|t=time]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*tempos-|t=stretch, measure]] and [[ine-pro|*temp-os|t=stretch]].^(de Vaan 2008) Augustine remarks that the ancients formed the word from time, not from storm.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is Plautus' ''Mostellaria'': “I think the doorposts were cut at the wrong time”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means not suited to the occasion, ill-timed or unseasonable, as Cicero tells Atticus that his letters never seemed untimely or too talkative, and writes that friendship is never out of season.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lucretius uses it of rain unsuited to the season, and Seneca of a person with no sense of the right moment, as an untimely adviser.^(OLD 2012) Ovid has untimely desire.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of doorposts cut at the wrong time.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of unseasonable rain.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of untimely letters.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of an untimely adviser.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Ill-timed, [[m|en|untimely]], [[m|en|unseasonable]], inopportune; of weather, unsuited to the season; at the wrong time.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Having no sense of the right occasion.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tempestivus|alt=tempestīvus]]

+ * [[intempestus]]

+ * [[tempus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}