imperitia Latin · revision 33563

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86–34 BC, Sallust|origins=la perītus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''imperītia''' ''f'' (genitive imperītiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''inperītia''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|imperītus|-ia|t1=inexperienced]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|imperītus]] is the negative of [[m|la|perītus|t=experienced, skilled]],^(de Vaan 2008) which de Vaan files with [[m|la|experior]] and [[m|la|reperiō]] under [[m|la|pariō]], tracing the family to [[itc-pro|*per(e)i-]] and [[ine-pro|*pérh3-i-|t=to provide]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and Lewis & Short record it first in Sallust,^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879) who in the ''Jugurtha'' has Jugurtha learn of the vanity and inexperience of a legate, ''cognita vanitate atque imperitia legati''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means lack of skill or experience, ignorance.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is mostly post-Augustan and absent from Cicero and Caesar.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Besides Sallust it is found in Tacitus, of the inexperience of young men, in Quintilian, who couples it with boorishness, and in Pliny the Elder;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca and Gellius use it with a genitive of the thing one is ignorant of, and Gellius even has a plural.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Church Latin it is ignorance or lack of knowledge,^(Stelten 1995) and medieval writers keep the classical sense, also in an author's modest remarks about his own lack of skill.^(MLW)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust, of the inexperience of a legate and of the enemy.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of the inexperience of young men.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius, of ignorance of things and words.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Lack of skill or experience, [[m|en|inexperience]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|ignorance|alt=Ignorance]]; [[m|en|awkwardness]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[perītus]]

+ * [[perītia]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}