indotatus Latin · revision 36917

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *deh₃-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪn.doːˈtaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [in.doˈtaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''indōtātus''' (feminine indōtāta, neuter indōtātum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|dōtātus|t2=provided with a dowry]], the participle of [[m|la|dōtō|t=to endow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan lists [[m|la|dōs|t=dowry]] and its derivatives under [[m|la|dō|t=to give]], tracing the noun to [[itc-pro|*dōt-|t=endowment]], a noun formed on [[ine-pro|*deh₃-|t=to give]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|δώς|tr=dṓs|t=gift]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first author is Plautus:^(TLL)^(Conte 2010) in the ''Aulularia'' a speaker proposes that men should take home wives without a dowry, ''indōtātās dūcant uxōrēs domum''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was used chiefly of women, girls or sisters without a dowry, as in Terence and Horace,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) and Terence also uses the plural as a noun, women without dowries.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Of marriages it meant those in which the wife brought no dowry: Valerius Maximus says that the senate, by its generosity, saved Scipio's daughters from such marriages.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Ovid uses it poetically of bodies heaped on pyres without the usual gifts to the dead.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Cicero uses it figuratively of a science that was undowered and unadorned until someone enriched it with the dowry of words.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Lewis and Short note that the classical writers have only the figurative use.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Medieval Latin it also meant not assigned as a dowry,^(Niermeyer 1976) and in British sources a church that was not endowed.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of wives without a dowry.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of girls without a dowry.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it figuratively of an unadorned science.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of bodies burned without gifts.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of a woman, without a [[m|en|dowry]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of a marriage, in which the wife brings no dowry.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(poetic)'' Of the dead, without the usual funeral gifts.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(figurative)'' [[m|en|unadorned|alt=Unadorned]], poor.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Not assigned as a dowry; of a church, not [[m|en|endow|alt=endowed]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dōtō]]

+ * [[dōs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}