inexpertus Latin · revision 32247

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inexpertus''' (feminine inexperta, neuter inexpertum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|expertus|t1=not|t2=tried, experienced]], the participle of [[m|la|experior|t=to try]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan treats ⟨-perior⟩ with [[m|la|pariō|t=to bring forth]], from [[itc-pro|*per(e)i-|t=to find, experience]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Livy.^(Köbler 2010) The OLD's first example is Virgil's ''Aeneid'', where Dido resolves to leave nothing untried before she dies.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is not in Cicero or Caesar.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Actively it means lacking experience of a thing, as Livy's army unused to good fortune and Tacitus' visitors unacquainted with licence.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Passively it means untried or untested, and not known from experience, unfamiliar: Publilius Syrus says that whatever happens unexpectedly does more harm.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it inexperienced, unaccustomed.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of something untried.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of an army unused to good things.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of people unacquainted with licence.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Lacking experience of a thing, [[m|en|inexperienced]], unaccustomed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Not tested, untried, [[m|en|unproven]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Not known from experience, unfamiliar.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[expertus]]

+ * [[experior]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}