interritus Latin · revision 32348

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=ine-pro *tros-eie-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''interritus''' (feminine interrita, neuter interritum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|territus|t1=not|t2=frightened]], the participle of [[m|la|terreō|t=to frighten]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan, following the LIV, traces [[m|la|terreō]] to [[itc-pro|*tros-eje-|t=to scare]] and [[ine-pro|*tros-eie-|t=to make scared]], comparing [[xum|tursitu|t=to scare]], [[sa|त्रसन्ति|tr=trásanti|t=they tremble]] and [[grc|τρέω|tr=tréō|t=to be scared, tremble]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short's earliest examples are in Virgil, who has a man raising his arms undaunted and a fleet sailing on unafraid.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means undaunted or fearless, of people and animals, and in poetry of things such as a fleet.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan in prose, as in Quintilian's unflinching face.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler gives Ovid as its first author.^(Köbler 2010) Manuscripts often confuse it with [[interitus]], destruction.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a fearless boxer and fleet.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of an unflinching face.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Not frightened, [[m|en|undaunted]], [[m|en|fearless]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}