sollertia Latin · revision 32323

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la sollus, la ars}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sɔlˈlɛr.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [solˈlɛr.t͡si.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sollertia''' ''f'' (genitive sollertiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''sōlertia''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sollers|-ia|t1=clever, skilled]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives [[m|la|sollers]] from [[itc-pro|*soll-arti-]], a compound of [[m|la|sollus|t=whole]] and [[m|la|ars|t=skill]]: wholly skilled.^(de Vaan 2008) [[m|la|sollus]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*solno-|t=whole]], compare [[osc|sullus|t=all]], and [[m|la|ars]] to [[ine-pro|*h₂r-tí-|t=the fitting]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler finds it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who says that some animals have a kind of contrivance and cleverness, and that no art can imitate the skill of nature.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means resourcefulness, cleverness or skill in contriving: Cicero credits the Chaldeans with keenness of mind, and Caesar calls the Gauls a people of the greatest ingenuity.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) With a genitive it is adroitness in doing something, as Cicero's skill in judging.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It can also be an ingenious plan, as in Tacitus, and in Cicero's ''De officiis'' a sharp subtlety that should be avoided.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it cleverness, ingenuity and skill.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the cleverness of animals and of nature.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of the ingenuity of the Gauls.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|cleverness|alt=Cleverness]], [[m|en|ingenuity]], skill, resourcefulness.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|dexterity|alt=Dexterity]], adroitness in doing something.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An ingenious plan; subtlety.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}