immansuetus Latin · revision 34603

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=43 BC–18 AD, Ovid|origins=la mānsuētus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪm.mãːˈsʷeː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [im.manˈsʷɛː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''immānsuētus''' (feminine immānsuēta, neuter immānsuētum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelt ''inmānsuētus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|mānsuētus|t2=tame]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists [[m|la|mānsuētus]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|suēscō|t=to become accustomed]] and explains it from ⟨*manu-suēto-⟩, a compound with [[m|la|manus|t=hand]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Ovid,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of a fierce, untamed person in the ''Metamorphoses'' and of Boreas, the most savage of the winds, in the ''Heroides''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short call it poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid also has it of the Cyclops and of a wild and savage nature, Seneca of a fierce bull and of animals no care can tame, and Statius of Creon;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Georges also cites Cicero for an uncivilised people.^(Georges 1913) Paulus' epitome of Festus uses it to explain the old word ''incicorem'', and glossaries render it with Greek words for wild.^(TLL)

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+ In the Middle Ages Frederick II's book on falconry uses it of falcons that grow wilder, and other writers of cruel men.^(MLW) British sources gloss it as untamed and undisciplined, of an irascible temperament.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of a savage person and of the north wind.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of a fierce bull.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius uses it of Creon.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|untamed|alt=Untamed]], [[m|en|wild]], [[m|en|savage]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(of people)'' Uncivilised; cruel.^(Georges 1913)^(MLW)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}