intemptatus Latin · revision 33449

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=65–8 BC, Horace|origins=la temptō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intemptātus''' (feminine intemptāta, neuter intemptātum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ The spelling ''intentātus'' is found too, mostly in poorer or later manuscripts.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|temptātus|t1=not|t2=tried]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) the participle of [[m|la|temptō|t=to touch, try]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) The TLL reports the view that Horace formed it on a Greek model.^(TLL) De Vaan explains the verb as an iterative built on an old participle [[itc-pro|*t(e)mp-to-|t=touched]], probably from the root [[ine-pro|*temp-|t=to stretch]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Horace, Virgil and Ovid on;^(TLL) Conte's first reference is Horace's ''Ars poetica''.^(Conte 2010) In Virgil ''haec intemptāta manēbat sors rērum'', “this turn of fortune was still untried”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means unattempted, untried,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) and is used of land or roads that no one has gone through, as the sea in Seneca the Elder and roads in Tacitus,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) and Frontinus has a forest ''intemptāta ante mīlitī nostrō'', “never before entered by our soldiers”.^(Conte 2010) Pliny the Elder uses it of things not yet tried out,^(OLD 2012) Gellius of marvels that Latin writers had left almost untouched,^(Conte 2010) and Valerius Maximus and Tacitus in the sense “not attacked”, as Seneca does of goods out of fortune's reach.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Medieval writers in Britain used it of what was not tried and of a road that an army had not tried.^(DMLBS) It survives in [[m|it|intentato]].^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it in the ''Ars poetica''.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it in the ''Aeneid''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of things not yet tried.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of a road not yet used and in the sense “unassailed”.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of subjects untouched by writers.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Medieval Latin – Orderic Vitalis uses it of a route an army had not tried.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|unattempted|alt=Unattempted]], [[m|en|untried]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of land, roads, the sea: not yet passed through or penetrated.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # Not yet tried out or used.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Not attacked, [[m|en|unassailed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[temptō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}