intemeratus Latin · revision 33364

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=ine-pro *temH-os-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪn.tɛ.mɛˈraː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [in.te.meˈraː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intemerātus''' (feminine intemerāta, neuter intemerātum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|temerātus|t1=not|t2=violated]], the participle of [[m|la|temerō|t=to violate, defile]] with the negative prefix.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The OLD forms that verb from [[m|la|temere|t=blindly, rashly]],^(OLD 2012) which de Vaan explains as a fossilised locative, [[itc-pro|*temesi]], of a noun [[ine-pro|*temH-os-|t=darkness]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|तमस्|tr=támas-|t=darkness]] and [[lt|tamsà|t=darkness]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it from Virgil,^(Köbler 2010) who in the ''Aeneid'' pours pure offerings on the hearth: ''munera libo intemerata focis''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is undefiled, pure, unstained.^(OLD 2012) Of women it means chaste, untouched: Virgil has a maiden who keeps her love of virginity undefiled, and Ovid has Penelope remain chaste among so many young suitors.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is unsullied or unimpaired: Virgil speaks of loyalty still unbroken among mortals,^(OLD 2012) and Tacitus of a camp kept uncorrupted and undefiled and of cavalry whose discipline the mutiny left intact.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Apuleius uses it of proofs of untainted truth,^(OLD 2012) and Martianus Capella has the comparative.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it spotless.^(Stelten 1995) A charter of 1252 has it in place of ''immoderātus'', of an unrestrained fury.^(Du Cange 1883)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of pure offerings, a chaste maiden and unbroken loyalty.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of a chaste wife.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of a camp kept undefiled.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1252 – A charter uses it for “unrestrained”.^(Du Cange 1883)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|undefiled|alt=Undefiled]], unstained, [[m|en|pure]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of women, [[m|en|chaste]], virgin.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Unsullied, unimpaired, [[m|en|inviolate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Unrestrained, immoderate.^(Du Cange 1883)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[temerō]]

+ * [[temere]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}