inconsideratus Latin · revision 36801

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero|origins=la cōnsīderō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪŋ.kõː.siː.dɛˈraː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iŋ.kon.si.deˈraː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''incōnsīderātus''' (feminine incōnsīderāta, neuter incōnsīderātum, comparative incōnsīderātior); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)

+ The comparative ''incōnsīderātior'' is used; the superlative is found only in an editor's conjecture.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|cōnsīderātus|t1=not|t2=considered, careful]],^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) and the second part is the participle of [[m|la|cōnsīderō|t=to consider]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' and in Cicero,^(TLL) who uses it of words and of people: ''nihil potest dīcī incōnsīderātius'', “nothing more ill-considered can be said”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is used of words and actions that have not been thought through, and of people who act without forethought, rash or injudicious.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) After Cicero it appears in Nepos, Seneca the Elder, Quintilian and Tertullian.^(TLL)

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+ British Medieval Latin kept the sense “hasty, imprudent” and also used it passively, “not considered, disregarded”.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of rash words and of thoughtless people.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos uses the comparative of a man more thoughtless in good fortune than in bad.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of youthful rashness.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it in the ''Apology''.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1380 – A letter of Richard II's reign uses it to mean “disregarded”.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # ''(of actions, words)'' Not well considered, [[m|en|ill-advised]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+ # ''(of people)'' Lacking forethought, [[m|en|hasty]], [[m|en|injudicious]], [[m|en|rash]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Not considered, disregarded.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|inconsiderate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}