indictus Latin · revision 32936

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=ine-pro *deiḱ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪnˈdɪk.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [inˈdik.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''indictus''' (feminine indicta, neuter indictum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|in-|t=not]] and [[m|la|dictus|t=said]], the participle of [[m|la|dīcō|t=to say]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces that verb to [[itc-pro|*deik-e/o-|t=to say]] and [[ine-pro|*deiḱ-|t=to show]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Cato, Köbler from Terence;^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) Terence has a character say that what was said is now unsaid.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means not said or not mentioned: Livy has someone unable to take back what he once sang as if it were unsaid, and Virgil promises that someone will not go unsung in his verse.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In law, ''indictā causā'' is without a hearing: Cato accuses someone of taking the lives of ten men without a hearing and without a judgement.^(OLD 2012) Apuleius uses it of the god of Plato, who cannot be spoken of.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of a death sentence without a hearing.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, said and unsaid.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, not unsung.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius of the ineffable god.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Not said, not mentioned, [[m|en|unsaid]]; unsung.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(law)'' ''indictā causā'': without a [[m|en|hearing]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # That cannot be spoken of, [[m|en|ineffable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dico#2|alt=dīcō]]

+ * [[indicens|alt=indīcēns]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''indictus'' is also the perfect participle of [[indico#2|alt=indīcō]], declared or proclaimed, as a war or a festival.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}