intutus Latin · revision 33243

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86–34 BC, Sallust|origins=la tūtus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intūtus''' (feminine intūta, neuter intūtum, comparative intūtior); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Nazarius' panegyric has the comparative ''intūtior''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|tūtus|t2=safe, protected]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it perhaps in Lucilius and then from Sallust on.^(TLL) Sallust's ''Histories'' ask how long the hearers will leave the state unprotected by their delay.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is unguarded or defenceless: Livy has a Gallic camp unguarded and neglected, and Tacitus a camp pitched without defences and the town of Verulamium, rich for plunder and hard to defend.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) The neuter plural ''intūta'' is the weak points, as Tacitus' ''intūta moenium''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also unsafe or dangerous: Tacitus says that what is dishonourable is also unsafe, and calls hiding places and the friendship of Tiberius unsafe.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder has it unsafe to write with an iron stylus, and Ammianus a river dangerous with whirlpools.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) A list of synonyms ascribed to Cicero sets it beside ''suspecta'', ''īnfīda'' and ''hostīlia''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust, of an unprotected state.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of an unguarded camp.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of unsafe friendship and weak points of walls.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus, of a dangerous river.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|unguarded|alt=Unguarded]], unprotected, [[m|en|defenceless]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(neuter plural as noun)'' weak points.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|unsafe|alt=Unsafe]], unreliable, [[m|en|dangerous]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tūtus]]

+ * [[tueor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}