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单词 otium cum dignitate
释义

otium cum dignitaten.

Brit. /ˌəʊtɪəm kʌm dɪɡnᵻˈtɑːteɪ/, /ˌəʊʃɪəm kʌm dɪɡnᵻˈtɑːteɪ/, U.S. /ˈˌoʊdiəm kəm ˌdɪɡnəˈtɑˌteɪ/, /ˈˌoʊʃiəm kəm ˌdɪɡnəˈtɑˌteɪ/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin cum dignitāte ōtium.
Etymology: < classical Latin cum dignitāte ōtium (Cicero Pro Sestio §98) < cum cum prep. + dignitātē , ablative of dignitās dignity n. + ōtium otium n., with transposition of elements, probably after the usual English word order.The phrase also occurs in various shortened forms, as e.g.:1863 H. J. Byron George de Barnwell iv. 20 With spade in hand plant flower, tree, and twig, And thus enjoy my otium cum dig.1898 W. S. Gilbert Bab Ballads 356 Agent, I Have come prepared at once to buy (If your demand is not too big) The Cure of Otium-cum-Digge.1990 Daily Tel. 14 Feb. 17/7 There is not a single proper countryman in the Cabinet now since Lord Whitelaw took his otium cum. A former pronunciation is reflected in the following allusion:1807 R. Alsop & T. Dwight Echo 270 That humble, in his native state, he Might otium mix with dignitate.
Leisure with dignity; dignified leisure or ease; spec. retirement from public life.
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otium cum dignitate1729
dolce far niente1814
disoccupation1834
otium1850
non-work1855
kef1864
toillessness1877
1729 Visct. Bolingbroke Let. 19 Nov. in A. Pope Wks. in Prose (1741) II. 96 Otium cum dignitate is to be had with 500l. a year as well as with 5000.
1766 W. Kenrick Falstaff's Wedding (new ed.) v. xvi. 83 Your majesty will please to order me from your Exchequer a competency to support the infirmities of nature, and the dignity of knighthood, Otium cum dignitate, my liege.
1820 W. Scott Monastery I. Introd. Ep. 9 Intending there to lead my future life in the otium cum dignitate of half-pay and annuity.
1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray II. xv. 300 Otium cum dignitate is a dream.
1906 Outlook 20 Nov. 495/2 Dockyardmen who are in danger of losing that otium cum dignitate which they have regarded as their perquisite.
a1918 R. S. Bourne Hist. Lit. Radical (1920) 90 Against a background of Harlem flats and stodgy bourgeois prejudices he works out this life of otium cum dignitate, calm speculation and artistic appreciation.
1995 Hist. Jrnl. 38 171 The virtues were designed to conduce to a vision of otium cum dignitate.
2002 Times (Nexis) 9 Aug. (Features section) 22 Meanwhile, otium cum dignitate will revert to what it was before: the preserve of a redefined patrician elite.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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