invisitatus Latin · revision 33319

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=170–c. 90 BC, Accius|origins=ine-pro *uid-eh1-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪn.wiː.sɪˈtaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iɱ.vi.s̬iˈtaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''invīsitātus''' (feminine invīsitāta, neuter invīsitātum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Cicero's manuscripts also have ''invissitātus''.^(TLL)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|vīsitātus|t1=not|t2=seen, visited]], the negative of the participle of [[m|la|vīsitō]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) That verb goes back to [[m|la|videō|t=to see]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*wid-ē-]] and [[ine-pro|*uid-eh1-|t=to see]].^(de Vaan 2008)

+

+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Accius.^(Köbler 2010) The OLD's earliest citation is Cicero's ''De divinatione'', of a shape so strange that no one could fail to picture it: ''forma tam invisitata''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is either not seen, unvisited, as in Vitruvius on the constellations both seen and unseen,^(OLD 2012) or not seen before, unfamiliar, strange or novel.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Apuleius uses it of powers whose form is unseen though their force is known,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Quintilian's declamations of a city that no one had visited.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL notes that it is often confused with [[inūsitātus]] and is securely attested in few places.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a strange shape.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius, of unseen stars.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|unseen|alt=Unseen]], [[m|en|invisible]]; unvisited.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Not seen before, unfamiliar, strange, [[m|en|novel]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vīsitō]]

+ * [[videō]]

+ * [[inūsitātus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}