inexplebilis Latin · revision 33509

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la expleō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪ.nɛkˈspɫeː.bɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [i.nekˈsplɛː.bi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inexplēbilis''' (neuter inexplēbile); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|expleō|-bilis|t1=not|t2=to fill up, satisfy|t3=-able]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Köbler takes it through the adjective [[m|la|explēbilis|t=that can be filled]], and analyses the verb as ⟨ex-⟩ with a simple verb “to fill” not attested on its own.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL and Köbler date it from Cicero,^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) who defines craving as ''libīdō inexplēbilis'', an insatiable desire.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is used of people and animals that cannot be filled, as of a creature insatiable in drinking in Pliny, a stomach in Seneca, and the jaws of the people in Cicero,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and of passions that can never be satisfied: Cicero's ''cupiditās'', Florus' hunger for honours.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) With a genitive it means insatiable of something: Livy calls a man ''inexplēbilis virtūtis vēraeque laudis''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Apuleius it is used of philosophy's mixing bowl, of which one cannot have enough.^(OLD 2012) Ancient glossaries explain it as ''īnsatiābilis''.^(TLL) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means insatiable and extraordinary.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of insatiable desire.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, with a genitive.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of a stomach and of the mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius, of something one cannot have enough of.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # That cannot be filled or sated, [[m|en|insatiable]] (of people and animals).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Impossible to [[m|en|satisfy]] (of passions and appetites).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of which one cannot have enough.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' Extraordinary.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[expleō]]

+ * [[īnsatiābilis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}