irritatio Latin · revision 36413

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=59 BC–17 AD, Livy|origins=la irrītō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪr.riːˈtaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ir.riˈtat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''irrītātiō''' ''f'' (genitive irrītātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''inrītātiō''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|irrītō|-tiō|t1=to provoke, excite]], a noun of action.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan takes that verb to be probably a denominative from [[itc-pro|*rīto-|t=stirred]], from [[ine-pro|*h₃riH-to-|t=whirled, stirred]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Livy on;^(TLL) Livy says that this was the first provocation of feelings, after an army had ravaged Attica and returned with plunder.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Valerius Maximus, Seneca and Tacitus use it of whatever stirs a person to a feeling or action:^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Seneca speaks of a natural restlessness in the mind that moves people to change their homes,^(TLL) and Tacitus says that the women of the Germans are corrupted by no enticements of banquets.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) In medicine Scribonius Largus defines ''tenesmos'' as an irritation of the last part of the bowel,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Gellius speaks of things contrived to excite the appetite.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In the Vulgate it is provocation to anger, as in Sirach, where it stands beside ''īra'',^(Georges 1913) and Jerome remarks that the Latin versions of Ezekiel render one Greek word by ''irrītātiō'' and ''exacerbātiō''.^(TLL) Medieval writers kept the sense of provocation, and a record of 1292 uses it for the baiting of a bear.^(DMLBS) The Ecclesiastical Latin dictionary of Stelten also gives the sense “annulment”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of provocation to anger.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of a natural urge in the mind.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 47 AD – Scribonius Largus uses it in medicine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of the enticements of banquets.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it of provocation to anger.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1292 – A record uses it of the baiting of a bear.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|incitement|alt=Incitement]] to some feeling or action, [[m|en|stimulation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Incitement to anger, [[m|en|provocation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(medicine)'' [[m|en|irritation|alt=Irritation]] of a sensitive part.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' [[m|en|annulment|alt=Annulment]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[irrītō]]

+ * [[irrītāmentum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}