ignorantia Latin · revision 32381

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=la ignōrō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ignōrantia''' ''f'' (genitive ignōrantiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|ignōrāns]], the participle of [[m|la|ignōrō|t=not to know]], with [[m|la|-ia]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[m|la|ignōrō]] and, with Nussbaum, explains that verb from [[itc-pro|*gnōs-]], an s-present of [[ine-pro|*ǵneh₃-s-|t=to recognize, know]] like the one in [[hit|kane/išš-|t=to recognize, acknowledge]]; he rejects the older view that it was made from [[m|la|ignārus|t=ignorant]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Lucretius.^(de Vaan 2008) Lewis & Short note that it is mostly post-Augustan, but Caesar has ignōrantia locī, ignorance of the place.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is lack of knowledge or information, with the genitive of what is not known, as in Caesar and Suetonius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that it renders [[grc|ἄγνοια|tr=ágnoia]] in translations from Greek.^(TLL) In scholastic Latin it is the absence of due knowledge, and in Medieval Latin it can also mean an error or a sin.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * c. 1200 – English [[m|en|ignorance]] is borrowed through French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|ignorance|alt=Ignorance]], lack of knowledge or information.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An [[m|en|error]]; a [[m|en|sin]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ignōrāns]]

+ * [[ignōrō]]

+ * [[ignoratio|alt=ignōrātiō]]

+ * [[en|ignorance]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}