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impietas

failure in respect

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
De Spectaculis 2 · 3.14/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 3 · 2.67/10k
Pro Rege Deiotaro 1 · 2.56/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Ad Nationes 3 · 2.01/10k
Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 1 · 1.76/10k
Octavius 2 · 1.72/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. impietas — de Vaan

impietas 'failure in respect' (P1.+), piore 'to propitiate, cleanse by expiation' (PL+), — [de Vaan, s.v. impietas, p. 482]

2. impĭĕtas — Lewis & Short

impĭĕtas (inp-), ātis, f.impius,

I want of reverence or respect, irreverence, ungodliness, impiety, undutifulness, disloyalty (rare but class.): nihil est quod tam miseros faciat quam impietas et scelus, Cic. Fin. 4, 24, 66; Ov. M. 4, 4: impietatis duces, of disloyalty, treason to one's country, Cic. Lael. 12, 42: impietatem punire voluit (legum lator), i. e. undutifulness to parents, Quint. 7, 1, 52; Suet. Vit. Luc.; cf. Ov. M. 8, 477: Albucilla defertur impietatis in principem, of high-treason, Tac. A. 6, 47; Plin. Pan. 33, 3.

In the wild

impietatem Tertullian, De Spectaculis 19.1
impietatem Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 9
impietas Seneca, Octavia 1
impietates Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 11
impietatem Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.13
impietas Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 14.10

6 of 56 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. impietas (scan p. 482; entry #1340).

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