innuptus Latin · revision 34766

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81/79–52/50 BC, Catullus|origins=la nūbō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''innū̆ptus''' (feminine innū̆pta, neuter innū̆ptum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|nūptus|t1=not|t2=married]], the second part being the participle of [[m|la|nūbō|t=to marry (of a woman)]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds no secure etymology for that verb.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A fragment of an unknown tragedy, quoted by Cicero, has ''innuptae nuptiae'', “a marriage that is no marriage”, translating the Greek “unmarried marriage”: ''qua tempestate Helenam Paris innuptis iunxit nuptiis''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Its first datable author is Catullus, who uses ''innupta'' for an unmarried girl.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is used mostly of women and girls: Virgil has boys and unmarried girls, and calls Minerva the virgin goddess (''innuptae donum Minervae''), and Silius Italicus calls the Amazons the unwedded band.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Catullus and Propertius use the feminine as a noun.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid, Statius, Seneca's tragedies and Apuleius also have it.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In British medieval Latin it meant unmarried or celibate, of men as well as women.^(DMLBS) Stelten gives simply “unmarried”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses ''innupta'' for an unmarried girl.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil calls Minerva ''innupta''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius Italicus calls the Amazons the unwedded band.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 878 – A papal letter orders a separated husband or wife to stay unmarried.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # (of women) [[m|en|unmarried|alt=Unmarried]], [[m|en|virgin|alt=virginal]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''innuptae nuptiae'': a marriage that is no marriage.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Unmarried, [[m|en|celibate]] (of men or women).^(DMLBS)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''innupta'': an unmarried girl.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}