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Rud. 187 me... in incertas regiones timidam eiectam.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [], "destinations": [ { "rel": "ahh", "cert": true }, { "rel": "opxdlp", "cert": true }, { "rel": "mytsmum", "cert": true }, { "rel": "ueniec", "cert": true }, { "rel": "qvcuye", "cert": true } ], "unspecified": [ { "rel": "gobd", "cert": true } ] } }, { "id": "mytsmum", "category": "Modal: epistemic", "emergence": -1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "VERG. Aen. 2, 740 fatone erepta Creusa substitit...? Incertum.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "ncw", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [ { "rel": "ewvmkf", "cert": true }, { "rel": "apxcmmn", "cert": true } ], "unspecified": [] } } ] }, { "definition": "Of illegitimate birth", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "qvcuye", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": -1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "SEN. contr. 2, 4, 5 pater istius (suppositi) incertus est.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "ncw", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [ { "rel": "hsv", "cert": true } ] } } ] }, { "definition": "Unknown, obscure ", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "hsv", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": -1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": " ​ VERG. Aen. 11, 341 genus huic Dranci materna superbum nobilitas dabat, incertum de patre ferebat.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [ { "rel": "qvcuye", "cert": true } ] } } ] }, { "definition": "Not determined, delimited, defined", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "rjz", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": -1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "CIC. Q. Rosc. 10 iudicium est pecuniae certae, arbitrium incertae.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [], "destinations": [ { "rel": "gzhvmt", "cert": true }, { "rel": "fy", "cert": true } ], "unspecified": [ { "rel": "pfzqq", "cert": true }, { "rel": "rmeexj", "cert": true }, { "rel": "melxns", "cert": true }, { "rel": "bplicr", "cert": true }, { "rel": "jnxijl", "cert": true } ] } } ] }, { "definition": "Irregular, uneven, perturbed", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "rmeexj", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": -1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "CIC. Cluent. 54 (Oppianici) suspensus incertusque vultus, crebra coloris mutatio.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [ { "rel": "rjz", "cert": true } ] } } ] }, { "definition": "Wandering, staggering, tottering", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "hojxfyvb", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": -2, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "TURPIL. com. 48 (nautae) incerto itinere porti indigentes.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "gobd", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [ { "rel": "melxns", "cert": true } ], "unspecified": [ { "rel": "umftgr", "cert": true } ] } } ] }, { "definition": "Dull, not attentive (blow, impulse)", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "melxns", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": -1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "VERG. Aen. 2, 224 incertam excussit cervice securim (taurus).", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "hojxfyvb", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [ { "rel": "peovw", "cert": true } ], "unspecified": [ { "rel": "rjz", "cert": true } ] } } ] }, { "definition": "Produced by, or affected by a hesitant blow, thrust", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "peovw", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": 1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "SEN. Ag. 777 cervice taurus vulnus incertum gerens.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "melxns", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [] } } ] }, { "definition": "Changeable or wavering (light, sheen, color and similar)", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "bplicr", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": -1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "SALL. hist. frg. 4, 40 lumine etiamtum incerto.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [ { "rel": "rjz", "cert": true } ] } } ] }, { "definition": "Mangled (body)", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "fy", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": 1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "SEN. Ag. 748 incertos geris, Deiphobe, vultus.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "rjz", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [] } } ] }, { "definition": "Confused, undistinguished (sound)", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "jnxijl", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": -1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "OV. epist. 8, 92 blanditias... incerto dictas ore infantis.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [ { "rel": "rjz", "cert": true } ] } } ] }, { "definition": "Not subject to natural law, order", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "vvayrgcp", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": -1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": " ​ CIC. fin. 5, 24 hanc initio institutionem (i. e. appetitum se conservandi) confusam habet et incertam (animal).", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [ { "rel": "bmuuxdo", "cert": true } ] } } ] }, { "definition": "Subject to change", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "bmuuxdo", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": -1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "SALL. Catil. 6, 1 Troiani profugi sedibus incertis vagabantur.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "gobd", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [ { "rel": "vvayrgcp", "cert": true } ] } } ] }, { "definition": "Unsteady, hazardous, untrustworthy", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "umftgr", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": -2, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "ENN. scaen. 210 amicus certus in re incerta cernitur", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "gobd", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [ { "rel": "jvwklo", "cert": true }, { "rel": "ahh", "cert": true }, { "rel": "pfzqq", "cert": true }, { "rel": "xessri", "cert": true } ], "unspecified": [ { "rel": "hojxfyvb", "cert": true }, { "rel": "emari", "cert": true } ] } } ] }, { "definition": "Suspect", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "ahh", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": 2, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "PS. QUINT. decl. 17, 15 p. 314, 23 potione tibi incerta.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "ncw", "cert": true }, { "rel": "umftgr", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [] } } ] }, { "definition": "Doubtful", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "pfzqq", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": -1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "CIC. Cluent. 157 ‘convenerit’: aeque incertum et infinitum est (left context: quam late pateat).", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "umftgr", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [ { "rel": "rjz", "cert": true } ] } } ] }, { "definition": "Not safe, dangerous", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "xessri", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": -1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "CAES. Gall. 5, 37, 7 incertis itineribus per silvas.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "umftgr", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [] } } ] }, { "definition": "Not apt, useless", "construct": "_", "group": "Doubtful", "analysis": [ { "id": "emari", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": -2, "disparition": "None", "attestation": " ​ PLAUT. Stich. 500 certumst mustelae posthac numquam credere: nam incertiorem nullam novi bestiam. 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Merc. 345 animi decem in pectore incerti certant nec, quid... consili capere possim, scio.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [], "destinations": [ { "rel": "ogvwf", "cert": true } ], "unspecified": [ ] } }, { "id": "ogvwf", "category": "Modal: epistemic", "emergence": -3, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "PLAUT. Rud. 213 hac an illac eam, incerta sum consili.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "scmyokm", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [] } } ] }, { "definition": "Lacking knowledge, unaware", "construct": "_", "group": "Who doubts", "analysis": [ { "id": "opxdlp", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": -2, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "PLAUT. Epid. 439 incertus tuom cave ad me rettuleris pedem. ", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "ncw", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [ { "rel": "aycue", "cert": true } ], "unspecified": [] } }, { "id": "aycue", "category": "Modal: epistemic", "emergence": -2, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "PLAUT. Truc. 785 quid sit negoti, falsus incertusque sum.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "opxdlp", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [] } } ] }, { "definition": "Unbelieving", "construct": "_", "group": "Who doubts", "analysis": [ { "id": "ewvxi", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": 1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "VAL. FL. 7, 214 oculos -a tenet Medea.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [], "destinations": [ { "rel": "ohgwbr", "cert": true } ], "unspecified": [] } } ] }, { "definition": "Who witholds a definite statement (Academici)", "construct": "_", "group": "Who doubts", "analysis": [ { "id": "ohgwbr", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": 4, "disparition": "None", "attestation": " ​ PAUL. NOL. Carm. 32, 35 Sunt et sectantes incerti dogma Platonis, quos quaesita diu animae​ substantia turbat.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "ewvxi", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [] } } ] }, { "definition": "It is not sure", "construct": "Incertum est", "group": "Who doubts", "analysis": [ { "id": "ueniec", "category": "Modal: epistemic", "emergence": -2, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "PLAUT. Aul. 729 nunc mi incertumst,... abeam an maneam eqs.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "ncw", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [ { "rel": "nnlyp", "cert": true }, { "rel": "apxcmmn", "cert": true }, { "rel": "ewvmkf", "cert": true } ], "unspecified": [] } } ] }, { "definition": "It is not sure", "construct": "Incertum + verbs other than esse", "group": "Who doubts", "analysis": [ { "id": "nnlyp", "category": "Modal: epistemic", "emergence": -1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "LUCR. 1, 594 incertum... constet, quid posset oriri, quid nequeat.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "ueniec", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [] } } ] }, { "definition": "Probably not, hardly", "construct": "Incertum an", "group": "Who doubts", "analysis": [ { "id": "apxcmmn", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": 1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "CURT. 5, 4, 19 dux incertum an satis fidus.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "ueniec", "cert": true }, { "rel": "mytsmum", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [ { "rel": "ewvmkf", "cert": true } ] } } ] }, { "definition": "Probably, maybe", "construct": "Incertum an", "group": "Who doubts", "analysis": [ { "id": "ewvmkf", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": 1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "TAC. Hist. 1, 75, 2 stetit domus utraque, sub Othone incertum an metu.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "ueniec", "cert": true }, { "rel": "mytsmum", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [ { "rel": "apxcmmn", "cert": true } ] } } ] }, { "definition": "Not sure", "construct": "Incerto / Incerto hoc / Incerto eo", "group": "Who doubts", "analysis": [ { "id": "aaizwnw", "category": "Modal: epistemic", "emergence": -1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "LIV. 28, 36, 12 adnantes navibus, incerto prae tenebris, quid aut peterent aut vitarent,... interierunt.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [] } } ] }, { "definition": "That cannot be discerned", "construct": "Incertus + visu", "group": "Who doubts", "analysis": [ { "id": "gzhvmt", "category": "Not modal", "emergence": 1, "disparition": "None", "attestation": "STAT. Theb. 10, 391 nescio quid visu dubium incertumque moveri... videt.", "certainty": true, "relationships": { "origins": [ { "rel": "rjz", "cert": true } ], "destinations": [], "unspecified": [] } } ] } ] }