inopinatus Latin · revision 33903

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la opīnor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪ.nɔ.piːˈnaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [i.no.piˈnaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inopīnātus''' (feminine inopīnāta, neuter inopīnātum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|in-|t=not]] and [[m|la|opīnātus]], the participle of [[m|la|opīnor|t=to suppose, expect]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds no convincing origin for [[m|la|opīnor]]; its traditional link with [[m|la|optō|t=to choose]] is weak in meaning.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero uses it in the speeches against Verres, of a thing that befell someone unforeseen and unexpected, and asks whether these things are new and unexpected to him.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means not expected, unforeseen: Cicero says a story is pleasant that has unexpected outcomes,^(OLD 2012) and Livy writes that something would be neither new nor unexpected to him.^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''Ex inopīnātō'' is "unexpectedly", as in Seneca, who says anger is not to be judged healthy just because it has sometimes helped unexpectedly.^(OLD 2012) Valerius Maximus appears to use it of people caught off their guard, a town taken unsuspecting and stunned.^(OLD 2012) Stelten gives "unexpected" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of unexpected events.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of what is neither new nor unexpected.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of ''ex inopīnātō''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Not expected, [[m|en|unexpected]], [[m|en|unforeseen]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''ex inopīnātō'', unexpectedly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Off one's guard, unsuspecting.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[opīnor]]

+ * [[inopīnāns]]

+ * [[necopīnātus]]

+ * [[opīniō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}