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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la ignōrō}}
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''ignōrātiō''' ''f'' (genitive ignōrātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|ignōrō|-tiō|t1=not to know]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The TLL finds it from Cicero on,^(TLL) who in the ''Republic'' has people afraid because they did not know the places.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It is lack of knowledge, ignorance,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) frequent in Cicero and rare in other writers.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero speaks of ignorance of one's family and birth, of dialectic, of causes, of the law, of the truth and of oneself.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Curtius has ignorance of a king never seen before, and the ''Digest'' ignorance of a fact.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It renders [[grc|ἄγνοια|tr=ágnoia|t=ignorance]] in the Latin version of Didymus.^(TLL)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of ignorance of places.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1st century AD – Curtius of an unknown king.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ * 533 AD – The ''Digest'' of ignorance of a fact.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Lack of knowledge, [[m|en|ignorance]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[ignōrō]]
+ * [[ignōrantia]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}