intonsus Latin · revision 32287

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=170–c. 90 BC, Accius|origins=la tondeō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪnˈtõː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [inˈtɔn.sus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intōnsus''' (feminine intōnsa, neuter intōnsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|tōnsus|t1=not|t2=shorn]], the participle of [[m|la|tondeō|t=to shear]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|tondeō]] to [[itc-pro|*tond-eje-]] and [[ine-pro|*tond-eie-|t=to shear]], comparing [[sga|teinnid|t=breaks, cuts]] and [[grc|τένδω|tr=téndō|t=to gnaw at]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short cite Accius, quoted by Cicero, of someone tearing again and again in grief at uncut hair.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) The TLL finds it mainly in poetry from Accius, Varro and Virgil on, more rarely in prose.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is said of uncut hair and beards, often as a sign of youth, and of people with uncut hair: Horace and Ovid call Apollo the unshorn god.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil also uses it of unshorn sheep and of oaks that keep their foliage.^(OLD 2012) Curtius uses it of uncut hair and of an unshaven chin.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of uncut hair.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a youth's unshaven face, of sheep and of leafy oaks.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of hair or beards, uncut.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Having uncut hair, [[m|en|unshorn]]; [[m|en|unshaven]]; of sheep, unshorn.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of trees, not stripped of leaves; of land, not cleared of trees.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}