simpliciter Latin · revision 32860

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sɪmˈplɪ.kɪ.tɛr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [simˈpliː.t͡ʃi.ter]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''simpliciter''' (comparative simplicius, superlative simplicissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|simplex|-ter|t1=simple, single]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|simplex]] is formed from the root of [[m|la|semel|t=once]] and [[m|la|-plex|t=-fold]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010) Cicero speaks of a question asked simply, about what is honourable, and not by comparison.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It first means as one single item: the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' contrasts teaching something simply with dividing it in two.^(OLD 2012) More often it is without qualification, simply, just: in Livy envoys say they came simply to ask for friendship.^(OLD 2012) It is also without complexity, plainly, of the style of lawgivers in Cicero, and without reserve, frankly: Caelius warns Cicero not to seem to have laid aside his enmities less than frankly.^(OLD 2012) Of people it can be artlessly or naively, as in Pliny the Elder, and Ulpian uses it of someone who acted simple-mindedly.^(OLD 2012) The comparative ⟨simplicius⟩ and the superlative ⟨simplicissimē⟩ are found.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a simple question and of a plain style.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of envoys who came simply to seek friendship.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian of simple-minded conduct.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # As one single item or category.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Without qualification, [[m|en|simply]], just; of a question, in plain terms.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Without complexity, plainly, [[m|en|straightforwardly]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Without reserve, [[m|en|frankly]], openly.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Artlessly, innocently, [[m|en|naively]]; simple-mindedly.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[simplex]]

+ * [[simplicitas|alt=simplicitās]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}