caecitas Latin · revision 33141

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *keh₂i-ko-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''caecitās''' ''f'' (genitive caecitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|caecus|-tās|t1=blind]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces [[m|la|caecus]] to [[itc-pro|*kaiko-]] and [[ine-pro|*keh₂i-ko-|t=one-eyed]], cognate with [[sga|cáech|t=one-eyed]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Cicero,^(de Vaan 2008) who in the ''De finibus'' calls sound sight a good and blindness a misery, and discusses blindness in the ''Tusculans''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it rare but found in good prose;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder uses it too.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero already uses it figuratively, of blindness of the mind, defining madness as blindness of the mind to everything, and in the speech on his house saying that punishment of the eyes has turned into blindness of the mind.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Isidore distinguishes it from ''caecitūdō''.^(TLL) In Church Latin it is darkness and spiritual blindness.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of bodily and mental blindness.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|blindness|alt=Blindness]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Blindness of the mind, lack of discernment;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995) ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' spiritual blindness, darkness.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[caecus]]

+ * [[caecō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}