tarditas Latin · revision 32519

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈtar.dɪ.taːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈtar.di.tas]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tarditās''' ''f'' (genitive tarditātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|tardus|-tās|t1=slow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds no etymology for [[m|la|tardus]]: he calls Walde and Hofmann's comparison with [[grc|τέρυ|tr=téru|t=weak]] and [[sa|तरुण|tr=táruṇa-|t=young, fresh]] unconvincing in meaning and impossible in form.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero, who speaks of slowness of the feet.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is slowness of movement or action: Cicero says that the opposite of speed is slowness, not weakness.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also delay, as when Cicero explains that fear made him slow to act.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it of hardness of hearing, and Cicero of dullness of mind.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it classical;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995) Church Latin glosses it slowness, tardiness.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of slow feet, delay and dullness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of hardness of hearing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|slowness|alt=Slowness]], [[m|en|tardiness]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Delay, [[m|en|procrastination]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Hardness of hearing.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Dullness of mind.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tardus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}