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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 180–102 BC, Lucilius|origins=la ūtor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪ.nuː.sɪˈtaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [i.nu.s̬iˈtaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inūsitātus''' (feminine inūsitāta, neuter inūsitātum, comparative inūsitātior); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|ūsitātus|t1=not|t2=customary]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[m|la|ūtor|t=to use]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*oit-e/o-|t=to use]] and, with a question mark, [[ine-pro|*h₃eit-|t=to take along]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Lucilius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) Lewis & Short quote Accius, through Nonius, for an unfamiliar human appearance.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the unusual and unfamiliar: Caesar calls a way of making war new and unheard of, Cicero writes of extraordinary size and charm.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler finds it in medieval councils, charters and glossaries too.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of an unfamiliar human form.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of a new way of waging war.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of extraordinary size.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|unusual|alt=Unusual]], unwonted, uncommon, [[m|en|strange]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[usitatus|alt=ūsitātus]]

+ * [[utor|alt=ūtor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}