infelicitas Latin · revision 32935

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=ine-pro *dʰeh₁-l(u)-i-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ĩː.feːˈliː.kɪ.taːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iɱ.feˈliː.t͡ʃi.tas]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnfēlīcitās''' ''f'' (genitive īnfēlīcitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|īnfēlīx|-tās|t1=unlucky]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) That adjective is [[m|la|in-|t=not]] with [[m|la|fēlīx|t=lucky]], which de Vaan explains as first “suckling, with young”, then “fruitful”, “fortunate”, going back to [[itc-pro|*fēl(w)ī-|t=suckling]] and [[ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-l(u)-i-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Terence,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) where a man cries out at his bad luck.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is misfortune or ill luck, and an instance of it;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it rare but classical.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it of lack of success, saying that soothsayers are not so unlucky that nothing they foretell ever happens by chance, and it is also infelicity of style.^(OLD 2012) Seneca uses it of an unhappy condition, wretchedness.^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that Christian writers use ''mea īnfēlīcitās'' of the speaker himself.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it unhappiness, wretchedness.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of bad luck.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the soothsayers' failure.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of wretchedness.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|misfortune|alt=Misfortune]], ill luck.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Unhappy condition, [[m|en|wretchedness]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Lack of success;^(OLD 2012) ''(of style)'' [[m|en|infelicity]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[infelix|alt=īnfēlīx]]

+ * [[felicitas|alt=fēlīcitās]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}