incitamentum Latin · revision 32485

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''incitāmentum''' ''n'' (genitive incitāmentī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ An inscription has the spelling ''intcitamentum''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|incitō|-mentum|t1=to urge on]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|incitō]] is formed from [[m|la|in-]] and [[m|la|citō|t=to set in motion]], which de Vaan derives from [[m|la|cieō|t=to set in motion]], with the participle [[itc-pro|*kito-|t=stirred]].^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero has it first, in the ''Pro Archia'', of the incentives to dangers and labours.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The TLL counts it once each in Cicero, Seneca and Pliny the Elder, more often from Curtius and Tacitus on, and never in poetry.^(TLL) It is whatever urges on or incites, a stimulus or incentive, often with a genitive: Tacitus has incentives to anger and to victory, and Curtius incentives of hope.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Curtius and Tacitus also apply it to people: Darius is a great incentive to the enemy to attack, and Galba's murderers the fiercest stimulus to sedition.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder uses it physically, of the lion lashing its back with its tail as with a goad.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of an incentive to toil and danger.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Curtius of Darius as an incentive to the enemy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of people who incite.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|incentive]], [[m|en|inducement]], incitement.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A person who incites, an instigator.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A spur or goad.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[incito|alt=incitō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}