insipiens Latin · revision 33365

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *sap-i-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ĩːˈsɪ.pi.ẽːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [inˈsiː.pi.ens]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnsipiēns''' (genitive īnsipientis, adverb īnsipienter); third-declension one-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Catullus has the spelling ''insapiens'', which Cicero rejects.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|sapiēns|t1=not|t2=wise]], with ⟨a⟩ weakened to ⟨i⟩ in the second syllable.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|sapiēns]] is the present participle of [[m|la|sapiō|t=to taste; to be wise]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*sap-i-]] and [[ine-pro|*sh1p-i-|t=to notice]], though the internal laryngeal is uncertain and the root may have to be left as ⟨*sHp-⟩.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[osc|sipus|t=knowing]] and [[osx|ansebbian|t=to remark, notice]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan records it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who has a character say ''sed ego insipiens nova nunc facio'', “but I, fool that I am, am now doing something new”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means unwise, foolish, and is also used as a noun, a fool.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Plautus already has the comparative, ''quis homost me insipientior'', “what man is more foolish than I?”^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero speaks of a lucky fool, ''insipiens fortunatus'', and sets the talk of the unwise against that of the wise man;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca has the superlative.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The adverb ''insipienter'', foolishly, is found from Plautus and Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Church Latin it is foolish, unwise.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of a man who calls himself a fool.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus has the form ''insapiens''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a lucky fool.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-15th century – English borrows it as [[m|en|insipient]], foolish.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|unwise|alt=Unwise]], [[m|en|foolish]], senseless.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(as a noun)'' A [[m|en|fool]].^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[īnsipientia]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sapiēns]]

+ * [[sapiō]]

+ * [[en|insipient]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}