inordinatus Latin · revision 37026

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la ōrdinātus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪ.noːr.dɪˈnaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [i.nor.diˈnaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inōrdinātus''' (feminine inōrdināta, neuter inōrdinātum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|ōrdinātus|t1=not|t2=arranged]], the negative of the participle of [[m|la|ōrdinō|t=to arrange]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in his ''Timaeus'' says that the god brought the world ''ex inordinato in ordinem'', from disorder into order.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Livy uses it of troops not drawn up in battle order (''inordinati in proelium ruunt'').^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Pliny the Elder uses it of leaves or fruit that are not regularly arranged, Celsus of fevers that recur irregularly, and Seneca of impulses that obey no rule.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Ecclesiastical Latin uses it in the sense “disordered, irregular”,^(Stelten 1995) and in Medieval Latin it could mean “intestate”.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses the neuter for disorder.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of soldiers not in formation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus writes of irregular fevers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca calls the impulses of animals disordered and turbulent.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Not regularly arranged, [[m|en|disordered]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of troops: not drawn up in [[m|en|formation]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Occurring irregularly.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # Not conforming to rule, [[m|en|disorderly]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(neuter as noun)'' Disorder.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|intestate|alt=Intestate]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ It has two adverbs, ''inōrdinātē'' (Celsus) and ''inōrdinātim'' (Ammianus), both “irregularly”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}