impudicitia Latin · revision 32499

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''impudīcitia''' ''f'' (genitive impudīcitiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''inpudīcitia''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|impudīcus|-itia|t1=shameless, unchaste]], modelled on its opposite [[m|la|pudīcitia|t=chastity]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|impudīcus]] is the negative of [[m|la|pudīcus|t=chaste]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and Lewis & Short date it from Plautus, in the ''Amphitruo''.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is sexual impurity or unchastity, in Tacitus, Gellius, the Digest and Tertullian.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is often used of homosexual acts: Suetonius uses it so in the lives of Caesar and Augustus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL records the plural in the Vulgate and in Rufinus' translation of Origen.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it immodesty, impurity.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of homosexual acts.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – the Vulgate has the plural.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Unchastity, sexual impurity, [[m|en|lewdness]], [[m|en|immodesty]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Homosexual acts; [[m|en|pederasty]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[impudicus|alt=impudīcus]]

+ * [[pudicitia|alt=pudīcitia]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}