indocilis Latin · revision 33630

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *doḱ-ei̯e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪnˈdɔ.kɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [inˈdɔː.t͡ʃi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''indocilis''' (neuter indocile); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|docilis|t1=not|t2=teachable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|docilis]] belongs to [[m|la|doceō|t=to teach]],^(Wiktionary) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*dok-eje-]] and [[ine-pro|*doḱ-ei̯e/o-|t=to have someone accept something]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|δοκεῖ|tr=dokeî|t=it seems]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first quotation is from Cato, of a most worthless and unteachable race, ''nequissimum et indocile genus''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means hard to instruct, unteachable or stubborn: Cicero says some people are too unteachable and slow, and Quintilian speaks of dull and unteachable men.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder uses it of swallows.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of a subject it is impossible to teach by precept, as when Cicero says that Lucullus' great talent did not need the training of experience, which cannot be taught.^(OLD 2012) It also means uninstructed, untaught or ignorant, as in Virgil's untaught race that was gathered and given laws.^(OLD 2012) Silius uses it poetically with a genitive, ''indocilis pācis'', not knowing peace.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato, of an unteachable race.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of slow learners.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of an untaught race.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian, of dull men.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Hard to instruct, unteachable, [[m|en|stubborn]], [[m|en|indocile]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of a subject: impossible to teach.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|untaught|alt=Untaught]], uninstructed, [[m|en|ignorant]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[indocilitās]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[docilis]]

+ * [[doceō]]

+ * [[indoctus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Servius distinguishes ''indocilis'', one who cannot learn at all, from ''indoctus'', one who has not yet learned;^(TLL) Isidore repeats the distinction.^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}