audens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of audeō.

Participle

audēns (genitive audentis, comparative audentior, superlative audentissimus, adverb audenter); third-declension one-termination participle

1. daring, venturing, risking

   Synonyms: audāx, prōmptus

   Antonyms: timidus, pavidus

2. (figuratively) those people who are: daring, venturing, risking; those who dare; the brave or bold
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.782:

     Audentēs forsque deusque iuvat.

     And luck and god help daring [people], or:
     Chance and god aid those who dare, or from 1851:
     ‘‘Be it chance, or be it a providence that aids the bold’’
     1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Trans. & notes by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 81.

3. (poetic) being eager for battle

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	audēns			audentēs	audentia
genitive	audentis			audentium
dative	audentī			audentibus
accusative	audentem	audēns		audentēs audentīs	audentia
ablative	audente audentī1			audentibus
vocative	audēns			audentēs	audentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

References

• “audens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “audens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “audens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.