incogitatus Latin · revision 36613

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''incōgitātus''' (feminine incōgitāta, neuter incōgitātum); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|cōgitātus|t1=not|t2=thought]], the perfect passive participle of [[m|la|cōgitō|t=to think]].^(OLD 2012)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan lists that verb among the derivatives of [[m|la|agō|t=to drive, do]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first author is Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) where it apparently has an active sense: ''īrācundō animō, indomitō, incōgitātō'', “of an angry, untamed, thoughtless mind”.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short find the active sense, thoughtless or rash, in early and late Latin, and the passive sense, not thought out, from the post-Augustan age.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca says that man is not a hasty and unplanned work, speaks of an eagerness that returned unbidden and unexpected, and in the ''Hercules Oetaeus'' calls for horrible, undreamed-of, unspeakable punishments.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Apuleius has the neuter plural ''incōgitāta'' as a noun, things said without preparation.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) The Historia Augusta uses it actively of people forced to speak on great matters without having thought beforehand.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a thoughtless mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of an unplanned work and of unimaginable punishments.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses the neuter plural of words said without preparation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # ''(active)'' [[m|en|thoughtless|alt=Thoughtless]], unreflecting, [[m|en|rash]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # Not thought out beforehand, [[m|en|unpremeditated]];^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) ''(neuter plural as noun)'' things said without preparation.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # Not thought of, unexpected.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # Never imagined, [[m|en|unimaginable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cōgitātiō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Köbler records a separate noun ''incōgitātus'', “thought”, formed from [[m|la|incōgitō]], in the Latin Irenaeus.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}