inedita

I1N1E1D2I1T1A1

noun

Unpublished literary works.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

nouninedita pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlybibliographyUnpublished literary works.

    Nos. 3110-3136 are from the area of Phygela Marathesion; in this section there are 10 inedita; one of them may well come from Melos (cf. our lemma no. 743); another is of unknown provenance (cf. our lemma no. 1580).

    1981, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, J. C. Giebum, page 243

Origin

  1. Latininēdita
  2. Englishinedita

1885–1890, New Latin, from Latin inēdita, neuter plural of inēditus, from in- (“not”) + ēditus (neuter plural ēdita), perfect form of ēdō (“publish, put forth”) (as in English edition), from ē (“out”) (from ēx) + dō (“give”), all from Proto-Indo-European roots. Various Romance cognates such as French inédit and Italian inedito.

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