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immodestus

lacking in restraint

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Where it lives

Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 1 · 0.58/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. immodestus — de Vaan

immodestus 'lacking in restraint' (PL+), modestia 'restraint' (PL+), immodestia 'lack of restraint' (PL+); moderare 'to control, rule, restrain' (PL+), moderator 'wielder, ruler' (Naev.+), moderatrix 'who restrains, female manager' (PL+), moderatim 'gradually' (Lucr.), moderanter 'in a controlling manner' (Lucr.), admoderari 'to control' (PL); (3) modius 'measuring-vessel' (PL+), modiolus 'bucket, vessel' (Cato+), … — [de Vaan, s.v. immodestus, p. 398]

2. immŏdestus — Lewis & Short

immŏdestus (inm-), a, um, adj.inmodestus,

I unrestrained, excessive, extravagant, immoderate (rare but class.; syn. immoderatus): in vino. Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 7: mores, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 44: largitione effundere, Sen. Contr. 1, 1: fautores histrionum, Tac. A. 13, 28: genus jocandi non profusum nec immodestum, * Cic. Off. 1, 29, 103.—Advv.: immŏdestē.

A Immoderately, extravagantly, impudently: amare, Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 25: gloriari (with immodice), Liv. 22, 27, 2: immodeste atque intemperanter facere multa, Quint. 5, 7, 32: postulare missionem, Suet. Aug. 24.— Comp.: procedere, Sen. Q. N. 1, 17.—

B Unjustly: tum me hoc indecore, inmodeste datis di, Plaut. Rud. 1, 3, 9.

In the wild

immodeste Plautus, Poenulus 1.1
immodeste Suetonius, Divus Augustus 24.2
inmodestis Plautus, Curculio 1.3
immodeste Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 25.6.11
immodestus Terence, Heautontimorumenos 3.3
inmodeste Plautus, Cistellaria 2.1

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. immodestus (scan pp. 398-399; entry #1072). Root candidates: *medo-, *medos-, *medesuo-.

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