sordidatus Latin · revision 33771

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *suord-o/i-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sɔr.dɪˈdaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [sor.diˈdaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sordidātus''' (feminine sordidāta, neuter sordidātum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sordidus|-ātus|t1=dirty, squalid]], formed like [[m|la|albātus|t=dressed in white]] and [[m|la|ātrātus|t=dressed in black]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) [[m|la|sordidus]] is made from [[m|la|sordēs|t=dirt]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*swordi-|t=dirt]] and [[ine-pro|*suord-o/i-]], comparing [[gem-pro|*swart-|t=black]]; he finds no further etymology.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it once, in the ''Asinaria'': ''quamquam ego sum sordidatus, frugi tamen sum'', “though I am shabbily dressed, I am an honest man”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008) Terence has a woman ''sordidata et sordida'', shabbily dressed and dirty.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is “meanly dressed”, of the poor and of slaves.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Its main use is for people in the dark, soiled clothes of mourning, worn by those who had lost relatives, by the accused and by suppliants seeking pity.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero tells how the judges were moved when he raised up a grieving old man in mourning dress, and Livy has accused men, and Virginius bringing his daughter into the forum in shabby clothes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Suetonius has a man going down to the rostra at dawn in mourning dress.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Sidonius uses the superlative of a foul, polluted conscience.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, “shabbily dressed but honest”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, of a woman dirty and shabbily dressed.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of an old man in mourning dress before the judges.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of accused men in mourning.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 431–486 AD – Sidonius, of a polluted conscience.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Meanly or [[m|en|shabbily]] dressed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Wearing the soiled clothes of [[m|en|mourning]], as the accused or [[m|en|suppliant|alt=suppliants]] did.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative, Late Latin)'' Foul, polluted.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sordēs]]

+ * [[sordidus]]

+ * [[sordeō]]

+ * [[squāleō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}