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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *skh₁-i(e/o)-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnscientia''' ''f'' (genitive īnscientiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|īnsciēns|-ia|t1=not knowing]],^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) like [[m|la|scientia]] beside [[m|la|sciēns]].^(TLL) [[m|la|īnsciēns]] is formed from [[m|la|in-|t=not]] and [[m|la|sciō|t=to know]],^(Wiktionary) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*skije/o-|t=to know]] and [[ine-pro|*skh₁-i(e/o)-|t=to incise]], assuming that “to know” developed from “to distinguish, decide”.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|σχάω|tr=skháō|t=to slit open]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in the ''Pro Sulla'' speaks of such great darkness of error and ignorance, ''in tantis tenebris erroris et inscientiae''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is lack of knowledge, ignorance, inexperience;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short compare [[īnscītia]].^(Lewis & Short 1879) Caesar uses it with a genitive for the ignorance of the common people and of the enemy.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The rhetorician Grillius, commenting on Cicero's ''De inventione'', defines it as saying that one does not know what one truly does not know.^(TLL) It has no plural.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the darkness of error and ignorance.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of the ignorance of the common people.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Lack of knowledge, [[m|en|ignorance]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) [[m|en|inexperience]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[īnsciēns]]

+ * [[scientia]]

+ * [[īnscītia]]

+ * [[sciō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}