incommodus Latin · revision 32718

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪŋˈkɔm.mɔ.dʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iŋˈkɔm.mo.dus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''incommodus''' (feminine incommoda, neuter incommodum, superlative incommodissimus); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|commodus|t1=not|t2=convenient, suitable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan lists it with [[m|la|commodus]] under [[modus]] “measure”, which he traces to [[itc-pro|*medo-|t=measure, judgement]] and [[ine-pro|*med-o-|t=measure]], comparing [[xum|meřs|t=law]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) in whom someone is told to answer nicely so that he will not be troublesome.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is troublesome or annoying, and disadvantageous: Cicero speaks of a valuation that is not only no burden to the farmer but welcome.^(OLD 2012) Terence has an inconvenient journey and Cicero poor health.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also unpleasant: Plautus has someone torment another with unpleasant words.^(OLD 2012) Of people it is disobliging: in the ''Asinaria'' a man admits his wife is troublesome and disobliging.^(OLD 2012) Glosses explain it as fruitless or useless.^(TLL) In medieval Latin it can mean ill.^(Niermeyer 1976) Church Latin glosses it inconvenient, unsuitable.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a troublesome person and of unpleasant words.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of an inconvenient journey.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a burden on farmers and of poor health.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Troublesome, tiresome, annoying; [[m|en|inconvenient]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Disadvantageous, unfavourable, especially of health.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Unpleasant, [[m|en|disagreeable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of people, disobliging.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Ill.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[comincommodus]]

+ * [[incommodesticus]]

+ * [[incommoditās]]

+ * [[incommodum]]

+ * [[perincommodus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[commodus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}