inique Latin · revision 32473

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪˈniː.kʷɛ]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iˈniː.kʷe]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inīquē''' (comparative inīquius, superlative inīquissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|inīquus|-ē|t1=unequal, unfair]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan lists [[m|la|inīquus]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|aequus|t=level, fair]], which he reconstructs as [[itc-pro|*aikwos]] but finds without a convincing etymology.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest example is in Plautus' ''Casina'', of how unfairly someone has behaved towards Venus;^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from Terence.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is unequally or unevenly: Terence's character never saw a contest more unequally matched.^(OLD 2012) It is also unfairly, unjustly or unreasonably, the sense in Plautus, and without equanimity, with ill humour, as when Suetonius says that Caesar bore the disfigurement of his baldness very ill.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary adds unwillingly or reluctantly.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of acting unfairly.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of an unequal contest.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of bearing baldness ill.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Unequally, [[m|en|unevenly]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|unfairly|alt=Unfairly]], [[m|en|unjustly]], unreasonably.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Without equanimity, with ill humour; unwillingly.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[iniquus|alt=inīquus]]

+ * [[aeque|alt=aequē]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}