detestabilis Latin · revision 32396

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deː.tɛsˈtaː.bɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [de.tesˈtaː.bi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dētestābilis''' (neuter dētestābile, comparative dētestābilior); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dētestor|-bilis|t1=to curse, abhor]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|dētestor]] is formed from [[m|la|dē-]] and [[m|la|testor|t=to call to witness]], from [[m|la|testis|t=witness]]; de Vaan traces [[m|la|testis]] to [[itc-pro|*tri-sto-]] and [[ine-pro|*trito-sth₂-o-|t=third standing by]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and the OLD find it first in Cicero, who says in the ''Philippics'' that nothing is more detestable than disgrace.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its usual sense is detestable, execrable or abominable: Cicero calls an omen detestable and says that nothing is so detestable and pestilent as pleasure.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy uses it in the strict sense of what is subject to a solemn curse, of places where anything had been set up in a man's honour.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of disgrace and pleasure.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of accursed places.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Subject to a solemn [[m|en|curse]], accursed.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|detestable|alt=Detestable]], [[m|en|execrable]], abominable.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[detestor|alt=dētestor]]

+ * [[detestatio|alt=dētestātiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}