inedia Latin · revision 33156

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁ed-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪˈnɛ.di.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iˈnɛː.di.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inedia''' ''f'' (genitive inediae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from the negative [[m|la|in-|t=not]], [[m|la|edō#1|t=to eat]] and the suffix [[m|la|-ia]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces [[m|la|edō#1]] to [[ine-pro|*h₁éd-mi|t=I eat]], cognate with [[osc|edum|t=to eat]], [[grc|ἔδω|tr=édō|t=to eat]] and [[hit|ed-zi|t=eats]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL and de Vaan find it first in Plautus,^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008) whose ''Curculio'' has darkness coming over the eyes and knees giving way from want of food.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the condition of having no food, starvation, and above all abstaining from food, voluntarily or not: Cicero has a man leaving life by starvation who is called back by his friends, and someone killed by lack of sleep and food.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Younger uses ''inediā vītam fīnīre'', to starve oneself to death.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Celsus speaks of bearing a fast,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and in medicine it is also an inability to keep food down.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein distinguishes it from ''famēs'', hunger from want of food, and ''ēsuriēs'', hunger from an empty stomach: ''inedia'' is simply not eating, mostly by choice.^(Döderlein 1874) Stelten gives “fasting, hunger, abstinence”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of fainting from hunger.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of starving to death.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus, of fasting and of a medical condition.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Want of food, [[m|en|starvation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Abstinence from food, [[m|en|fasting]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(medicine)'' Inability to retain food.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[edō#1]]

+ * [[famēs]]

+ * [[ēsuriēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}