The corpus record — Latin

ignorantia

ignorantia · f

want of knowledge

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Where it lives

Pelopidas 1 · 14.04/10k
De Paenitentia 2 · 4.91/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Ad Nationes 4 · 2.68/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Adversus Marcionem 12 · 1.45/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 3 · 1.32/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ignōrantĭa — Lewis & Short

ignōrantĭa, ae, f.ignorans, from ignoro,

I want of knowledge or information, ignorance (mostly post-Aug.; only once in Cic., for Cic. Fl. 20, 46, is a gloss; cf. Klotz, Cic. Lael. 19, 70; syn. ignoratio).

(a) With gen. obj.: ignorantia loci, * Caes. B. C. 3, 68, 2: locorum, Suet. Galb. 20; cf.: imperii Romani, Tac. A. 1, 59: scripturae, Suet. Calig. 41: discriminis sui, Quint. 6, 1, 47: praeteritae culpae, Ov. H. 20, 189: veri, id. M. 7, 92: recti, Tac. Agr. 1: bonarum rerum, Nep. Ages. 8, 5.—

(b) Absol.: errorem et temeritatem et ignorantiam et opinationem et suspicionem ... a virtute sapientiaque removebat, * Cic. Acc. 1, 11, 42: hoc est maximum ignorantiae malum, quod, etc., Quint. 12, 3, 3; 5, 10, 34; cf. id. 7, 2, 40; 7, 4, 14: mutua ignorantia fallentes, Tac. H. 1, 75: sancta ignorantia, quid sit illud quod, etc., id. G. 40: ignorantiā lapsus, Plin. Ep. 10, 59; 10, 97, 1: si debitor meus manumisso dispensatori meo per ignorantiam solverit, liberari eum, Gai. Inst. 3, 160.

In the wild

ignorantiae Tertullian, De Paenitentia 3
ignorantiae Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.8.p2
ignorantiam Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.14
ignorantiae Tertullian, De Corona 1
ignorantiae Cornelius Nepos, Pelopidas 1.p1
ignorantiae Tertullian, De Paenitentia 5

6 of 57 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. ignorantia (scan p. 303; entry #4750).

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