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+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=65–8 BC, Horace|origins=la stō}}
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''īnstita''' ''f'' (genitive īnstitae); first declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is probably [[der|la|īnstō|t=to stand on, press upon]],^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) formed as a feminine beside an unrecorded noun ⟨*īnstes, -itis⟩, like [[antistita]] beside [[antistes]].^(Wiktionary) Lewis and Short connect it with [[īnsistō]] instead.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL finds a link with the verb hard to square with the meaning, and reports Szemerényi's suggestion of a Greek source.^(TLL)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ It is first found in Horace,^(Köbler 2010) of women whose ankles are covered by a flounce sewn onto the dress (''quārum subsūtā tālōs tegit īnstita veste'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It was the band or flounce sewn on the lower edge of a married woman's ''stola'', a mark of the respectable matron:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid speaks of the long ''īnstita'' and, by metonymy, of “no ''īnstita''” for no lady being present.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)
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+ It also meant any band or tape: in Petronius a maid takes two bands from her bosom to tie up feet and hands, and the girths of a bed frame are ''īnstitae''.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Scribonius Largus uses it of a bandage, and Statius has it too.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Ecclesiastical Latin uses it of a bandage or winding band,^(Stelten 1995) and in British medieval Latin it was a ribbon, a bandage, a swaddling band, a winding sheet, and a woman's outer garment.^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of the flounce of a matron's dress.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it for matrons themselves.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 47 AD – Scribonius Largus uses it of a bandage.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses it of bands for tying and of bed girths.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A [[m|en|flounce]] or band sewn on the lower edge of a [[m|en|matron|alt=matron's]] dress;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) ''(poetic)'' a matron.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)
+ # A [[m|en|band]], tape or [[m|en|ribbon]]; a girth of a bed.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)
+ # A [[m|en|bandage]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A swaddling band; a winding sheet; a woman's outer garment.^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Usage notes==
+ Niermeyer records a separate medieval ''instita'' “mercer's shop”, formed from [[īnstitor]] “pedlar”.^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}