pigritia Latin · revision 33990

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la piger}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɪˈɡrɪ.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [piˈɡrit.t͡si.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pigritia''' ''f'' (genitive pigritiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ There is also a fifth-declension form ''pigritiēs''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|piger|-itia|t1=sluggish]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds no root etymology for the adjective.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) whose ''Mercator'' tells someone to drive away weariness and not give way to sluggishness.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is lack of energy, sluggishness, in living beings or things,^(OLD 2012) and laziness:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero defines it as fear of the labour to come, and tells a friend not to think it laziness that he does not write in his own hand.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy uses it of a failure to act, asking what ignorance of war and what sloth this is.^(OLD 2012) Livy also has a fifth-declension accusative ''pigritiem''.^(TLL) Döderlein ranks it with ''sēgnitia'', ''dēsidia'' and ''sōcordia'' as faults of too easy a temperament, ''pigritia'' being a dislike of all movement.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of sluggishness.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of sloth in war.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Lack of energy, [[m|en|sluggishness]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|laziness|alt=Laziness]], [[m|en|sloth]], indolence; disinclination to act.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[piger]]

+ * [[piget]]

+ * [[ignāvia]]

+ * [[dēsidia]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}