insuetus Latin · revision 32990

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=220–130 BC, Pacuvius|origins=ine-pro *sue(h₁-)dʰh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnsuētus''' (feminine īnsuēta, neuter īnsuētum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|suētus|t1=not|t2=accustomed]], the participle of [[m|la|suēscō|t=to become accustomed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|suēscō]] to [[itc-pro|*swē(þ)-sk-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*sue(h₁-)dʰh₁-|t=to make one's own, get accustomed]], comparing [[grc|εἴωθα|tr=eíōtha|t=to be used to]] and [[grc|ἦθος|tr=êthos|t=custom]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it once in Pacuvius,^(TLL) who has someone called by an unaccustomed name.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means unaccustomed or unused to something, with a genitive, dative, ⟨ad⟩ or an infinitive: Cicero has a man unused to insult, Caesar men unused to labour and to a kind of fighting, Tibullus hands unused to work.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means unfamiliar or unusual.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The TLL finds it in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' and Cicero, and more often from Caesar on.^(TLL) Döderlein notes that Livy pairs it with [[insolitus]].^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius of an unfamiliar name.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a man unused to insult.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of men unused to labour.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 55–19/18 BC – Tibullus of hands unused to work.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|unaccustomed|alt=Unaccustomed]], unused to; inexperienced.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Unfamiliar, [[m|en|unusual]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[insuetudo]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[suesco|alt=suēscō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}