iactantia Latin · revision 34261

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 35–95/96 AD, Quintilian|origins=la iaciō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [jakˈtan.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [jakˈtan.t͡si.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''iactantia''' ''f'' (genitive iactantiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|iactāns|-ia|t1=boasting]], from the present participle of [[m|la|iactō|t=to throw about; to boast]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) That verb is a frequentative of [[m|la|iaciō|t=to throw]], which de Vaan derives from [[itc-pro|*jaki-|t=to throw]] and the root [[ine-pro|*(H)ieh₁-|t=to throw, let go]]; cognate with [[grc|ἵημι|tr=híēmi|t=to send, throw]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Quintilian,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of showing off one's talent, ''iactantia ingenii'', and of not inserting something for fear of being thought boastful.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short call it post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is boasting, as in Tacitus' ''militaris iactantia'' and Maroboduus' ''iactantia sui'', and showing off or ostentation, as Tacitus' ''verborum iactantia'' and Gellius' remark on someone with more display than work in letters.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) The Christian writers make it a vice: Augustine defines it as the fault of a soul that loves to be praised by men and scorns the witness of conscience, and Martin of Braga says it is what the Greeks call ''kenodoxia'' and the Latins ''vana gloria''.^(TLL) In Ecclesiastical Latin it is vainglory,^(Stelten 1995) and medieval writers in Britain use it of boasting and bragging, and once of the shifting of sand.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian [[m|it|iattanza]].^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of showing off.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of military boasting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of ostentation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine defines it as a vice.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|boasting|alt=Boasting]], [[m|en|bragging]], boastfulness.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # Showing off, [[m|en|ostentation]], display.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' [[m|en|vainglory|alt=Vainglory]].^(Stelten 1995)^(TLL)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[iactō]]

+ * [[iactātiō]]

+ * [[iaciō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}