incustoditus Latin · revision 33496

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=43 BC–18 AD, Ovid|origins=la custōs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪŋ.kʊs.toːˈdiː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iŋ.kus.toˈdiː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''incustōdītus''' (feminine incustōdīta, neuter incustōdītum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|custōdītus|t1=not|t2=guarded]],^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) from the participle of [[m|la|custōdiō|t=to guard]], which is derived from [[m|la|custōs|t=guardian]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) The origin of [[m|la|custōs]] is unclear: de Vaan rejects as unlikely the accepted explanation as “one who sits by what is hidden”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and the TLL record it first in Ovid,^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) whose cattle wander unguarded over the fields: ''vagantur incustoditae lata per arva boves''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid also has an unguarded sheepfold and Martial an unguarded, open doorway;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Silius uses it of a night when no watch is kept.^(OLD 2012) Tacitus applies it to persons and activities not kept under watch, as crossings left unsupervised but by day and unarmed,^(OLD 2012) to dates not carefully observed in signing a will,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and to an affection that was not concealed or guarded.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In an active sense it is heedless or imprudent, as Pliny the Younger's ''incustoditus nimis et incautus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of unguarded cattle and sheepfolds.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius, of an unwatched night.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of unsupervised crossings and unguarded love.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Not watched over, [[m|en|unguarded]]; of times, without a watch kept.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of persons and their activities, not kept under observation, [[m|en|unsupervised]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Not carefully noted or observed, disregarded.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Not concealed; not prudent, heedless.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[custōdiō]]

+ * [[custōs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}