inauspicatus Latin · revision 36959

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪ.nau̯s.pɪˈkaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [i.nau̯s.piˈkaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inauspicātus''' (feminine inauspicāta, neuter inauspicātum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|auspicātus|t2=having taken the auspices]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) The participle belongs to [[m|la|auspicor|t=to take the auspices]], from [[m|la|auspex|t=augur, bird-diviner]], which de Vaan lists among the derivatives of [[m|la|avis|t=bird]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler finds it first in Livy,^(Köbler 2010) where the question is raised whether a law passed without auspices could have bound even the immortal gods.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is religious and political: done without taking the auspices.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) After Augustus it came to mean ill-omened or unlucky:^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca uses it in the ''Oedipus'', Petronius of a place, and Pliny the Elder of birds and animals of bad omen,^(TLL)^(Conte 2010) saying that the Romans renamed Epidamnus Dyrrachium because of its ill-omened name.^(TLL) Pliny also judges it most unlucky to clear the table while a guest is drinking.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Late Latin Ennodius uses it for unhoped for or unexpected.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) The grammarian Donatus explains it as something done without auspices.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of a law passed without the auspices.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it in the sense ill-omened.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of animals of bad omen and of an ill-omened name.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 310–380 AD – Donatus glosses it as without auspices.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 513 AD – Ennodius uses it of unexpected success.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Not sanctioned by the [[m|en|auspices]], done without taking the auspices.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|inauspicious|alt=Inauspicious]], unlucky, [[m|en|ill-omened]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' Unhoped for, [[m|en|unexpected]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The ablative ''inauspicātō'' is used as an adverb, without the sanction of the auspices;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it of crossing the ''pōmērium'' without taking them.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}