inevitabilis Latin · revision 9307

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Ovid|origins=la vītō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɪ.neː.wiːˈtaː.bɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [i.ne.viˈtaː.bi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inēvītābilis''' (neuter inēvītābile); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[in-]] “not” and ⟨ēvītābilis⟩ “avoidable”, from [[ēvītō]] “to avoid”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short cite Ovid, of a thunderbolt that cannot be dodged.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Ovid 43 BC–18 AD; his first source is Curtius.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant that cannot be avoided or dodged, especially of death, misfortune and fate, as in Ovid, Seneca and Tacitus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Seneca it also meant indispensable, and ''inēvītābilia'' are the things that cannot be avoided.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis & Short call it post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for inevitable, of death, and as a noun for the inevitable.^(DMLBS) It gave [[en|inevitable]] in the mid-15th century, “unavoidable”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-15th century – English ''inevitable'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Unavoidable, [[m|en|inevitable]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Indispensable.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ēvītō]]

+ * [[vītō]]

+ * [[en|inevitable]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}