The corpus record — Latin

incitus1

incitus1 · adj

set in rapid motion

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Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Punica 6 · 0.79/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k

What it meant

1. in -cĭtus — Lewis & Short

in -cĭtus, a, um, adj.,

I set in rapid motion, rapid, swift, violent (poet.): venti vis, Lucr. 1, 271: inciti atque alacres Delphini, Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 35, 89: hasta, Verg. A. 12, 492: silex, Sil. 1, 491: longis Porticibus conjux fugit, Val. Fl. 1, 728.

2. incĭtus — Lewis & Short

incĭtus, a, um, adj.2. in-citus, unmoved; hence, of a chessman that cannot be moved,

I immovable: (calculi) qui moveri omnino non possunt, incitos dicunt. Unde et egentes homines inciti vocantur, quibus spes ultra procedendi nulla restat, Isid. Orig. 18, 67.—As substt.

1 incĭtae, ārum (sc. calces), f., and

2 incĭta, ōrum, n. Used only in the ante- and post-class. authors in the transf. phrase, ad incita or ad incitas aliquem redigere, deducere, redire, etc., to bring to a stand-still, reduce to extremity: Sy. Profecto ad incitas lenonem rediget, si eas abduxerit. Mi. Quin prius disperibit faxo, quam unam calcem civerit, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 85: ut ad incitast redactus, id. Trin. 2, 4, 136 Brix: vilicum corrupit, ad incita redegit, Lucil. ap. Non. 123, 27: illud ad incita cum redit atque internecionem, id. ib. 25: Epirotae ad incitas intolerandi tributi mole depressi, Mamert. Grat. Act. ad Jul. 9.

3. incĭtus — Lewis & Short

incĭtus, ūs, m.in-cieo,

I quick motion: adsiduo mundi incitu, Plin. 2, 45, 45, § 116.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. incitus (scan p. 338; entry #5332).

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