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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=4 BC–65 AD, Seneca|origins=la corporālis}}
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''incorporālis''' (neuter ''incorporāle''); third-declension two-termination adjective^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|in-|corporālis|t1=not|t2=bodily]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Lewis & Short call it post-Augustan;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca writes that whatever exists is either corporeal or incorporeal, ''aut corporale est aut incorporale''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It means without body or substance, immaterial, intangible, incorporeal.^(OLD 2012) Quintilian applies it to a right, ''iūs incorporāle''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The grammarians use it of nouns that name something incorporeal, as Priscian of ''virtūs'',^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Pompeius defines such things as those that can be neither seen nor touched, like piety.^(TLL) Seneca uses the neuter plural ''incorporālia'' as a noun, incorporeal things.^(Georges 1913) Boethius uses it in his commentary on Porphyry.^(TLL) It continues in Church Latin and medieval Latin, incorporeal, immaterial.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of incorporeal things.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian, of an incorporeal right.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 6th century AD – Priscian, of abstract nouns.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Without body or substance, [[m|en|immaterial]], [[m|en|intangible]], [[m|en|incorporeal]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)
+ # ''(grammar)'' Of nouns: denoting something incorporeal, [[m|en|abstract]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[incorporalitas]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[corporālis]]
+ * [[corpus]]
+ * [[incorporeus]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}