immoderatus Latin · revision 32696

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=106–43 BC, Laberius|origins=la moderor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''immoderātus''' (feminine immoderāta, neuter immoderātum, comparative immoderātior); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|moderātus|t1=not|t2=moderate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The participle is from [[m|la|moderor|t=to control, restrain]], which de Vaan lists among the derivatives of [[modus]] “measure”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Laberius.^(Köbler 2010) In Cicero's speech for Roscius of Ameria it is used of excessive storms beside violent winds.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of degree it is unlimited, excessive, and in poetry measureless: Cicero, translating Euripides, has the lofty, boundless ether, and Lucretius too has it of the boundless.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of actions and appetites it is unrestrained: the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' calls immense desires infinite and unrestrained.^(OLD 2012) Of people it is intemperate: Cicero exclaims at an immoderate woman.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it without measure, immoderate, excessive.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 106–43 BC – Laberius.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of excessive storms and boundless ether.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of the boundless.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Unlimited, [[m|en|excessive]], immoderate;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''(poetic)'' measureless, boundless.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of actions and appetites, [[m|en|unrestrained]], unbridled.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of people, [[m|en|intemperate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[immoderantia]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[moderatus|alt=moderātus]]

+ * [[moderor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}