insidiator Latin · revision 33020

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86/82 BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnsidiātor''' ''m'' (genitive īnsidiātōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|īnsidior|-tor|t1=to lie in wait]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and the TLL date it from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' and Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) Cicero says there is no guard at the gates and no one lying in wait on the road.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is one who lies in wait to attack or rob, a waylayer;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Hirtius uses it in the military sense of soldiers in ambush.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also a plotter or deceiver: Horace has an ''īnsidiātor'' whose hook a crafty man may escape by nibbling it off.^(OLD 2012) The TLL finds it in verse only in single passages of Horace's satires, Ausonius, Prudentius and Claudian.^(TLL) Church Latin uses it of a plotter, spy or traitor,^(Stelten 1995) and Medieval Latin of the Devil.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''.^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a waylayer.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a plotter.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # One who lies in wait, a [[m|en|waylayer]], lurker.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(military)'' A soldier lying in [[m|en|ambush]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A [[m|en|plotter]], deceiver; a spy, traitor.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The [[m|en|Devil]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[insidiae|alt=īnsidiae]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}