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imprudentia

imprudentia · f

want of foresight

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

imprūdentĭa — Lewis & Short

imprūdentĭa (inpr-), ae, f.imprudens,

I want of foresight or of knowledge, inconsiderateness, imprudence, ignorance, inadvertence: tantusque ab imprudentia eventus utraque castra tenuit pavor, Liv. 4, 39, 6: quo modo prudentia esset, nisi foret contra imprudentia? Gell. 6, 1, 4: propter imprudentiam, ut ignosceretur, petiverunt ... ignoscere imprudentiae dixit, etc., Caes. B. G. 4, 27, 4 sq.; 5, 3, 6; 7, 29, 4; id. B. C. 3, 112, 3; cf. Ter. Eun. prol. 27: imprudentia est, cum scisse aliquid is, qui arguitur, negatur, Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 95; 1, 27, 41: locorum, Petr. 79: qui perperam judicassent, quod saepe per imprudentiam fit, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 23, § 57: inculcamus per imprudentiam saepe etiam minus usitatos (versus in oratione), sed tamen versus, id. Or. 56, 189: in quo ne per imprudentiam quidem errare potest, etc., id. Fam. 3, 10, 9; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 53: imprudentia teli emissi brevius propriis verbis exponi non potuit, aimlessness, want of purpose, Cic. de Or. 3, 39, 158.

In the wild

6 of 44 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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