incuria Latin · revision 34057

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=la cūra}}

+

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪŋˈkuː.ri.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iŋˈkuː.ri.a]^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''incūria''' ''f'' (genitive incūriae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|cūra|-ia|t2=care]];^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) the TLL takes it as formed on the model of [[iniuria|alt=iniūria]].^(TLL) De Vaan traces that noun to [[itc-pro|*kwois-ā-|t=care, watch]] and perhaps [[ine-pro|*kwei-s-|t=to heed]].^(de Vaan 2008)

+

+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Cato.^(de Vaan 2008) Cicero writes of soldiers of the Roman people destroyed by neglect, hunger, disease and devastation.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+

+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is want of care or attention: neglect, carelessness, indifference.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero speaks of neglect of something most necessary, and Horace of the blots that carelessness lets fall.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus uses it often.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Festus and Porphyrio gloss it as ''neglegentia'', care that has no care.^(TLL) Church Latin keeps the senses neglect, carelessness, indifference.^(Stelten 1995)

+

+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato.^(de Vaan 2008)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of neglect of soldiers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of the faults carelessness lets fall.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+

+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Want of care, [[m|en|neglect]], [[m|en|carelessness]], [[m|en|negligence]], indifference.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+

+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cura|alt=cūra]]

+ * [[incuriosus|alt=incūriōsus]]

+

+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}