ingressus Latin · revision 33261

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la gradior}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iŋˈɡrɛs.sus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ingressus''' ''m'' (genitive ingressūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ingredior|-tus|t1=to step in, enter]], a fourth-declension noun of action.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Etymonline) [[m|la|ingredior]] is a compound of [[m|la|in-]] and [[m|la|gradior|t=to step, go]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who asks his hearers to remember how quick someone's return was and how he entered the forum.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the act of going in, an entry,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and also a way in: Sallust has a hill with a narrow, sandy approach.^(OLD 2012) Velleius has Antony's entry into the camp,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and later writers use it of a hostile inroad.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil uses it of a beginning, asking where men's new skill took its start, and Quintilian of the opening of a speech.^(OLD 2012) It is also walking and steps: Cicero asks what use feet are without walking, Pliny the Elder uses it of the gait of a queen bee, Silius of a hostile advance and Livy of treading on unsteady ground.^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that the genitive is not found before Hilary.^(TLL) In Church Latin it is an entrance or procession,^(Stelten 1995) and in medieval texts also the taking possession of property or rights.^(Niermeyer 1976) English [[m|en|ingress]] (mid-15th century) came from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of entering the forum and of walking.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of a beginning.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian, of the opening of a speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-15th century – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|ingress]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A going in, [[m|en|entry]], [[m|en|entrance]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) a hostile [[m|en|inroad]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A way in, an approach.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A beginning; the opening of a speech.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Walking, a step; [[m|en|gait]];^(OLD 2012) a hostile advance.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Entry into possession of property or rights.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ingredior]]

+ * [[ingressiō]]

+ * [[en|ingress]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Ingressus, -a, -um'' is also the participle of [[ingredior]], “having entered, having begun”.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}