inamabilis Latin · revision 36003

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪ.naˈmaː.bɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [i.naˈmaː.bi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inamābilis''' (neuter inamābile); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|amābilis|t2=lovable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) That adjective is formed from [[m|la|amō|t=to love]],^(Wiktionary) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*ama-|t=to take, hold]] and [[ine-pro|*h₃mh₃-|t=to take hold of]]; he explains the Latin meaning as having developed from “to take someone's hand” to “to regard as a friend”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) in the ''Bacchides'', where a speaker says he lives unlovable and charmless (''inamābilis, inlepidus vīvō'').^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it a word of poetry and post-Augustan prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil applies it to the marsh of the Styx with its gloomy water, and Ovid to the kingdom of the dead;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Gellius says that Virgil used it to express the absence of love, as he used ''inlaudātus'' for the absence of praise.^(TLL) Martial compares a girl with an unlovely squirrel, Pliny the Younger calls a kind of work unattractive, and Seneca the Elder has the comparative: nothing is more unlovely than painstaking folly.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Ovid uses the neuter as an adverb, of a harsh and unpleasant sound.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ Medieval writers kept it for people, places and times;^(DMLBS) Bede and Alcuin speak of the unlovely time of death.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian [[m|it|inamabile]].^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a person.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of the marsh of the Styx.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of the kingdom of the dead.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius comments on Virgil's use of the word.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # That cannot be loved, [[m|en|disagreeable]], [[m|en|unattractive]], [[m|en|odious]] (of people, places and times).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(DMLBS)

+ # (neuter as adverb) Unpleasantly, harshly (of a sound).^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[amābilis]]

+ * [[amō]]

+ * [[illepidus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}