insepultus Latin · revision 33162

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=ine-pro *sepel-ie/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnsepultus''' (feminine īnsepulta, neuter īnsepultum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|sepultus|t1=not|t2=buried]], the negative of the participle of [[m|la|sepeliō|t=to bury]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces [[m|la|sepeliō]] to [[itc-pro|*sepel-je/o-|t=to bury]] and [[ine-pro|*sepel-ie/o-|t=to honour]], cognate with [[sa|सपर्यति|tr=saparyáti]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in Naevius and Plautus.^(TLL) In Plautus' ''Mostellaria'' the speaker says his host killed him and buried him secretly in the house, without funeral rites.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero has heaps of unburied citizens, Horace unburied limbs, and Livy men thrown out unburied.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The OLD separates the sense “buried without the proper rites”, as in that line of Plautus.^(OLD 2012) Seneca calls a death without burial ''mors insepulta''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) A gloss equates it with ''inhumātus''.^(TLL) Stelten gives “unburied”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius, the first instance.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of a man buried without rites.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of unburied citizens.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of men thrown out unburied.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Not buried, [[m|en|unburied]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Not buried with the proper funeral rites; of a death, without burial.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sepeliō]]

+ * [[sepultūra]]

+ * [[inhumātus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}