inhabilis Latin · revision 34054

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=59 BC–17 AD, Livy|origins=la habilis}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪˈna.bɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iˈnaː.bi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inhabilis''' (neuter inhabile); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|habilis|t2=manageable, fit]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Livy on, perhaps already in Cicero, and not in the poets.^(TLL) Livy says the light troops' javelin was hard for the unskilled to throw back.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means hard to handle, manoeuvre or use, unwieldy: Livy has a ship of almost unmanageable size, and Curtius the unwieldy bulk of elephants.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca uses it of a task not easily dealt with, and the declamations ascribed to Quintilian of a person clumsy in manners.^(OLD 2012) It also means ill-suited to a purpose, unfit, as when Livy says a crowd would be unfit for agreement.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin uses it of the incapable or unable.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of an unwieldy javelin and ship.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of a task.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 1st century AD – Curtius of elephants.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Hard to handle or use, [[m|en|unwieldy]], unmanageable; of a person, clumsy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Ill-suited, [[m|en|unfit]], incapable.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[habilis]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Köbler has a separate ''inhabilis'' from [[habito|alt=habitāre]], in Tertullian.^(Köbler 2010) The comparative is perhaps only in an inscription.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}