indiscretus
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪn.dɪsˈkreː.tʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [in.disˈkrɛː.tus]
- Hyphenation: in‧dis‧crē‧tus
Adjective
[edit]indiscrētus (feminine indiscrēta, neuter indiscrētum, adverb indiscrētē or indiscrētim); first/second-declension adjective (chiefly post-Augustan)
- (literal) unseparated, undivided, closely connected
- 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Rerum rusticarum 3.1.7:
- Agrī cultūram prīmō propter paupertātem maximē indiscrētam habēbant, quod ā pāstōribus quī erant ortī in eōdem agrō et serēbant et pāscēbant; quæ posteā crēvērunt pecūlia dīvīsērunt, ac factum ut dīcerentur aliī agricolæ, aliī pāstōrēs.
- At first, they held the cultivation of the land in a very disorganized manner because of their poverty, since those who had sprung from the same land both sowed and grazed there; later, as their wealth grew, they divided it, and so it happened that some were called farmers and others shepherds.
- Agrī cultūram prīmō propter paupertātem maximē indiscrētam habēbant, quod ā pāstōribus quī erant ortī in eōdem agrō et serēbant et pāscēbant; quæ posteā crēvērunt pecūlia dīvīsērunt, ac factum ut dīcerentur aliī agricolæ, aliī pāstōrēs.
- (figurative) indistinguishable, not capable of being told apart
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 10.391–392:
- Vōs etiam, geminī, Rutulīs cecidistis in arvīs, ¶ Daucia, Lārīdē Thymberque, simillima prōlēs, ¶ indiscrēta suīs grātusque parentibus error; ¶ at nunc dūra dedit vōbīs discrīmina Pallās.
- 1951 translation by Rolfe Humphries
- And then he saw twin brothers, sons of Daucus, ¶ Named Thymber and Larides, whom their kinsmen ¶ Could never tell apart, and their own parents ¶ Made fond mistakes about them.
- 1951 translation by Rolfe Humphries
- Vōs etiam, geminī, Rutulīs cecidistis in arvīs, ¶ Daucia, Lārīdē Thymberque, simillima prōlēs, ¶ indiscrēta suīs grātusque parentibus error; ¶ at nunc dūra dedit vōbīs discrīmina Pallās.
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | indiscrētus | indiscrēta | indiscrētum | indiscrētī | indiscrētae | indiscrēta | |
| genitive | indiscrētī | indiscrētae | indiscrētī | indiscrētōrum | indiscrētārum | indiscrētōrum | |
| dative | indiscrētō | indiscrētae | indiscrētō | indiscrētīs | |||
| accusative | indiscrētum | indiscrētam | indiscrētum | indiscrētōs | indiscrētās | indiscrēta | |
| ablative | indiscrētō | indiscrētā | indiscrētō | indiscrētīs | |||
| vocative | indiscrēte | indiscrēta | indiscrētum | indiscrētī | indiscrētae | indiscrēta | |
Further reading
[edit]- “in-discrētus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- in-discrētus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 201
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “indiscretus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- “indiscretus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 805.
- Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “in-discrētus”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands[2], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC
- Latino-Sinicum [translated as: 無分曉者/无分晓者; 不分別者/不分别者]
- “in-discrētus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Categories:
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