incomptus Latin · revision 34026

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

+

+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''incōmptus''' (feminine incōmpta, neuter incōmptum, comparative incōmptior); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''incomtus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|cōmptus|t2=dressed, adorned]], the participle of [[m|la|cōmō|t=to arrange, dress the hair]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+

+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who says that, as some women are thought to be suited by their very lack of ornament, so the plain style pleases even when unpolished.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+

+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Literally it is said of hair not properly arranged, dishevelled, and of persons untidy in appearance: Horace has Curius with unkempt hair and a head entwined with short vipers, and Suetonius says Augustus' hair was rather untidy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus uses it of a soldier marching rough and unkempt, and of a simple equipment;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short also give nails left untrimmed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is unpolished, rough, unrefined, above all of speech or writing: Virgil has country people sport in rough verses, Livy says a speech was unpolished but weighty in a soldierly way, and Gellius praises the simple and unadorned charm of old speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca speaks of an unstudied beauty.^(OLD 2012)

+

+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the unpolished plain style.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of rough verses.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of unkempt hair.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of Augustus' hair.^(OLD 2012)

+

+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of hair, not arranged, [[m|en|dishevelled]]; of persons, [[m|en|unkempt]], untidy; unadorned.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Unpolished, rough, inelegant, artless, especially of speech or writing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Related words==

+ * [[comptus|alt=cōmptus]]

+

+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}