impransus Latin · revision 34698

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪmˈprãː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [imˈpran.sus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''imprānsus''' (feminine imprānsa, neuter imprānsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|prānsus]], the negative prefix with the participle of [[m|la|prandeō|t=to eat one's morning meal]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[m|la|prandium|t=morning or midday meal]], which he explains as “first meal”, from [[itc-pro|*prāmo-|t=first]] and [[ine-pro|*prh₃-mo-|t=first]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus on:^(de Vaan 2008) in the ''Amphitruo'' a speaker says “that day I went without breakfast”, the sense “not having had one's morning meal”.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Plautus also has a soldier who stands by unfed.^(TLL) Horace uses it twice: in the ''Satires'' he invites his hearers to inquire with him before breakfast, and in the ''Epistles'' he describes a man too hungry to tell a citizen from an enemy.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) It kept the plain meaning “fasting”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it for “without breakfast”.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it in the ''Satires'' and ''Epistles''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Not having had one's morning meal, without [[m|en|breakfast]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) [[m|en|fasting]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[prandium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}