illaesus Latin · revision 33171

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Tibullus and Ovid}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪlˈlae̯.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ilˈlɛː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''illaesus''' (feminine illaesa, neuter illaesum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''inlaesus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|laesus|t1=not|t2=hurt]], the negative of the participle of [[m|la|laedō|t=to hurt]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds no certain cognates for [[m|la|laedō]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Tibullus and Ovid;^(TLL) a poem in the Tibullan collection has a boar that will get away unharmed.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short think it perhaps not found before Augustus.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid uses it of a body unharmed and of healthy parts that a cancer spreads to.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Seneca has a man who escaped through sword, ruins and fire unharmed and without loss, and uses it of happiness that has never been struck.^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that it often works as a litotes.^(TLL) In Medieval Latin it is “intact, untouched”.^(Niermeyer 1976) Stelten gives “unharmed”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of an unharmed body.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of escaping unharmed.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Physically unharmed, [[m|en|uninjured]]; unimpaired by illness; undiminished.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Unharmed in any way, untouched, [[m|en|intact]].^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # Of abstract things, unimpaired, [[m|en|inviolate]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[laedō]]

+ * [[laesiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}