imprudentia

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin imprūdēns

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin imprūdentia

From imprūdēns + -ia.

Noun

imprūdentia f (genitive imprūdentiae); first declension

1. ignorance

   Synonym: ignōrantia

2. imprudence

   Synonyms: stupiditās, īnsapientia, stultitia, sōcordia, ineptitūdō, inertia

   Antonyms: sapientia, prūdentia, calliditās, scientia

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	imprūdentia	imprūdentiae
genitive	imprūdentiae	imprūdentiārum
dative	imprūdentiae	imprūdentiīs
accusative	imprūdentiam	imprūdentiās
ablative	imprūdentiā	imprūdentiīs
vocative	imprūdentia	imprūdentiae

Descendants

• → Catalan: imprudència
• → English: imprudence
• → French: imprudence
• → Galician: imprudencia
• → Italian: imprudenza
• → Occitan: imprudéncia
• → Portuguese: imprudência
• → Spanish: imprudencia

Adjective

imprūdentia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of imprūdēns

References

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