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| Re: Nimius, Nimio... == excessive, too g |
| 23 Oct 24 14:32:40 |
XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.language.latin From: wugi@brol.invalid Op 22/10/2024 om 8:10 schreef Ed Cryer: > HenHanna wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 22:32:14 +0000, HenHanna wrote: >> >>> Nimius, Nimio... == excessive, too great, too much >>> >>> Antonyms: parcus, modicus, paucus, perpaucus >>> >>> Ex nimiā suī opīni ne ――――― Having too good a conceit of >>> himself. >>> >>> >>> >>> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/numinous >>> is (etym.) unrelated, but sort of related in .... >> >> >> re: Ex nimiā suī opīni ne >> >> >> EX======= "due to" or "as a result of" >> >> >> i'm having trouble understanding that... >> the phrase (clause?) doesn't work without the EX. >> >> >> [nimiā suī opīni ne] is NOT a unit??? >> >> >> So different from English, in this respect??? > > It DOES work without the EX. But the difference is so subtle, that I > won't even dream of leading others into that semantic pit. > > Ed > In my "PLF" [personal language "feel", PTG amongst Dutch-speakers;)] I'd see the sole ablative used for circumstantial or causal description: "His self-esteem being exaggerated" [few people sought his company] (absolute ablative), or "Because of, through, by... his exaggerated self-esteem" [he was sometimes deceived] (causal abl.) While with "ex", I'd see it as a rather chronological/logical descriptor: "Out of his exaggerated self-esteem" [grew a grudge against the world] Room for semantical contamination, admittedly. -- guido wugi --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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