inaequalitas Latin · revision 34523

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=la aequus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inaequālitās''' ''f'' (genitive inaequālitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|inaequālis|-tās|t1=uneven, unequal]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The adjective is a compound of [[m|la|in-|t=not]] and [[m|la|aequālis|t=equal]], which de Vaan lists from Plautus on among the derivatives of [[m|la|aequus|t=level, equal]]; for [[m|la|aequus]] itself he finds no convincing etymology.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Varro,^(Köbler 2010) who in the ''De lingua Latina'' uses it of a toga and a tunic.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short note that it is not found in Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It means irregularity of shape or surface, as of a jar in Columella or of the hollows of valleys in Pliny the Elder, and patchiness, as of clouds in Seneca.^(OLD 2012) Seneca the Elder and Seneca apply it to an uneven style of speaking.^(OLD 2012) It is also inequality of size, weight or duration, unequal treatment, and unlikeness or variation, as of soils in Columella;^(OLD 2012) Gellius uses it to explain Greek ''anomalia'' in grammar, irregularity of declension.^(OLD 2012) Of a person it is inconsistency: Seneca says Socrates stayed the same amid great changes of fortune.^(OLD 2012) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means inequality,^(Stelten 1995) and in medieval Latin it also came to mean inferiority or defect, and weakness or illness.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of a toga and a tunic.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of patchy clouds, of uneven style and of inconsistency.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of the irregular shape of a jar and of differences of soil.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * Medieval Latin – It means a defect, and weakness or illness.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|irregularity|alt=Irregularity]] of shape or surface; patchiness; unevenness of style.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|inequality|alt=Inequality]] in size, weight or duration; unequal treatment, [[m|en|inequity]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # [[m|en|unlikeness|alt=Unlikeness]], variation, dissimilarity.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of persons, [[m|en|inconsistency]], changeableness.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Inferiority, defect; weakness, [[m|en|indisposition]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aequalitas|alt=aequālitās]]

+ * [[en|inequality]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}