desidiosus Latin · revision 33725

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86/82 BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=ine-pro *sed-eh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deː.sɪ.diˈoː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [de.s̬i.diˈɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēsidiōsus''' (feminine dēsidiōsa, neuter dēsidiōsum, comparative dēsidiōsior, superlative dēsidiōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dēsidia|-ōsus|t1=idleness]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) and [[m|la|dēsidia]] is from [[m|la|dēsideō|t=to sit idle]], made of [[m|la|dē]] and [[m|la|sedeō|t=to sit]].^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|sedeō]] to [[itc-pro|*sed-ē-]] and [[ine-pro|*sed-eh₁-|t=to be seated]];^(de Vaan 2008) cognate with [[grc|ἕζομαι|tr=hézomai|t=to sit down]] and [[sga|saidid|t=sits]].^(de Vaan 2008) Isidore explains it as from much sitting, after a play on words in Varro.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', Cicero and Varro on.^(TLL) The ''Rhetorica'' uses it of an art that makes men idle.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of persons it is idle or lazy: Varro says the men who sat in town were thought lazier than those who worked the land,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Ovid that whoever does not wish to grow idle should love,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Pliny the Younger calls himself the laziest of men beside his uncle.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lucan uses it of a bee.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of things it is what makes idle: Cicero has enticements to idleness and the most sluggish and idle leisure.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The comparative is found from Varro, the superlative from Cicero.^(TLL) Lucretius has the adverb ''dēsidiōsē''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', of an art that makes men idle.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of idle leisure.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of townsmen lazier than farmers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of the idle man who should love.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore explains it from sitting.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|idle|alt=Idle]], [[m|en|indolent]], [[m|en|lazy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of conduct or things, marked by idleness; making idle.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dēsidia]]

+ * [[dēsideō]]

+ * [[dēses]]

+ * [[sedeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}