ignotus Latin · revision 7403

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɪŋˈnoː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [iɲˈɲɔː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ignōtus''' (feminine ignōta, neuter ignōtum, comparative ignōtior, superlative ignōtissimus); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from the negative prefix [[in-]] and ⟨gnōtus⟩, the old form of [[nōtus]] “known”; compare [[ignārus]] and [[grc|ἄγνωστος|tr=ágnōstos|t=unknown]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero notes that the ⟨i⟩ is long before ⟨gn⟩.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Naevius, whom he dates c. 235–200 BC.^(Köbler 2010) The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus and Terence.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant unknown, unfamiliar, strange, as in Terence, and of persons unknown, as Cicero's ''homō ignōtus'', and as a noun a stranger, as in Plautus.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant lacking fame, obscure, as in Terence, and actively in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' ignorant.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Medieval Latin used it in the active sense, ignorant of something.^(Niermeyer 1976) It survives in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese ''ignoto''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius has the word.^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of the unknown and the obscure.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses ''homō ignōtus''.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Unknown, unfamiliar, strange.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of persons, unknown; as a noun, a [[m|en|stranger]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Obscure, undistinguished.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Ignorant.^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nōscō]]

+ * [[nōtus]]

+ * [[ignārus]]

+ * [[en|ignore]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Ignōtus'' is also the participle of [[ignōscō]] “to pardon”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}