inscitia Latin · revision 32369

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la sciō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnscītia''' ''f'' (genitive īnscītiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|īnscītus|-ia|t1=ignorant, clumsy]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|īnscītus]] goes back to [[m|la|sciō|t=to know]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*skije/o-|t=to know]] and perhaps [[ine-pro|*skh₁-i(e/o)-|t=to incise]], to know having grown from to distinguish.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Miles gloriosus'': “forgive my ignorance and stupidity”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is ignorance, especially in practical matters, clumsiness or ineptitude, usually with a note of blame.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short contrast it with [[inscientia|alt=īnscientia]], the mere absence of knowledge, though Tacitus does not keep them apart, as when he writes of soldiers killed in the dark while the others were unaware.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Paul the Deacon's Festus glosses it [[stultitia]], foolishness.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it ignorance.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of ignorance and stupidity.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of unawareness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|ignorance|alt=Ignorance]], inexperience, [[m|en|clumsiness]]; stupidity.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Lack of knowledge, unawareness.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}