importunitas Latin · revision 34055

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''importūnitās''' ''f'' (genitive importūnitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''inp-''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|importūnus|-tās|t1=unsuitable, troublesome]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan derives that adjective from [[m|la|portus|t=harbour]], which goes back to [[ine-pro|*pr-tu-|t=crossing, ford]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) in whose ''Rudens'' a character complains of the unreasonableness and wrong done to them by their master.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Plautus and later it is persistent lack of consideration for others, unreasonable demands, ruthlessness;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short gloss it as unmannerliness, incivility, rudeness.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The general sense, unsuitableness or unfavourableness, is rare: Gellius has the unfavourableness of a place.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin uses it of insolence or impoliteness,^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin of insistence, pressing solicitation.^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''importunity'' (early 15th century), persistence or over-eagerness, came through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a master's unreasonableness.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius of the unfavourableness of a place.^(OLD 2012)

+ * early 15th century – English ''importunity''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Unfavourableness, unsuitableness of a situation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Lack of consideration for others, unreasonableness, [[m|en|incivility]], [[m|en|insolence]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Insistence, [[m|en|importunity]], urgency.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[portus]]

+ * [[en|importunity]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}