intectus Latin · revision 33398

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86–34 BC, Sallust|origins=ine-pro *(s)teg-e/o-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intēctus''' (feminine ''intēcta'', neuter ''intēctum''); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|tēctus|t1=not|t2=covered]], the negative prefix with the participle of [[m|la|tegō|t=to cover]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces that verb to [[itc-pro|*teg-e/o-|t=to cover]] and [[ine-pro|*(s)teg-e/o-|t=to cover]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|στέγω|tr=stégō|t=to keep off, keep in]], [[grc|τέγος|tr=tégos|t=roof]], [[sga|teg|t=house]] and [[lt|stógas|t=roof]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in the ''Histories'' of Sallust,^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) of unroofed houses beside the burnt walls of temples, ''domus intectae parietesque templorum ambusti'', and of bodies covered only with skins.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means uncovered, of houses without a roof or of water in an open channel (in a letter of Trajan to Pliny),^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) and above all unclothed or bare: Tacitus says that the Germans spend whole days by the fire with nothing else on, and has it of bare feet and an uncovered head.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Georges also gives “unarmoured, unprotected”, and Ammianus has it of uncovered flanks.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus once uses it figuratively for “unguarded, frank”, of Tiberius, secretive towards others but made open towards one man alone.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust, of unroofed houses and bare bodies.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of naked bodies.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of bare feet and heads, and of a frank character.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus, of an uncovered head.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|uncovered|alt=Uncovered]], [[m|en|unroofed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of persons or parts of the body: unclothed, bare, [[m|en|naked]]; unprotected.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(figuratively)'' Not guarded, open, [[m|en|frank]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tegō]]

+ * [[tēctum]]

+ * [[integō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The same spelling is also the perfect participle of [[integō]], “to cover”, with the opposite meaning; the OLD and Georges list the participle separately.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}