imparatus Latin · revision 32504

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *prh₃-o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪm.paˈraː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [im.paˈraː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''imparātus''' (feminine imparāta, neuter imparātum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|parātus|t1=not|t2=prepared]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|parātus]] is the participle of [[m|la|parō|t=to prepare]], which de Vaan, among whose derivatives imparātus appears, explains as a denominal verb from a noun [[ine-pro|*prh₃-o-|t=providing]], comparing [[grc|ἔπορον|tr=époron|t=provided, gave]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Plautus on; in the ''Captivi'' a man is accused of making a fully prepared affair entirely unprepared.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It describes enterprises and equipment that are not ready, and people who are unprepared or unprovided: in Terence a man says he would have been lost if he had been attacked unprepared, and another does not want to be caught unready when Phormio arrives.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The glossaries render it [[grc|ἀνέτοιμος|tr=anétoimos|t=unready]].^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it unprepared.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of an affair made unready.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of being caught unprepared.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of things, not prepared, [[m|en|unready]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of people, [[m|en|unprepared]], unprovided.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[imparatio]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[paratus|alt=parātus]]

+ * [[paro|alt=parō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}