iners
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *enartis. By surface analysis, in- + ars (“skill, art”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɪ.nɛrs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈiː.ners]
Adjective
[edit]iners (genitive inertis, comparative inertior, superlative inertissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective
- without skill, unskilled, unskillful, incompetent, crude
- inactive, lazy, idle, indolent, sluggish, inert; worthless; stagnant
- quiet, timid, tame, docile, spiritless, cowardly
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.158–159:
- [...] spūmantemque darī pecora inter inertia vōtīs
optat aprum, aut fulvum dēscendere monte leōnem.- [...] and that [Ascanius] — among such docile flocks — be given [an answer] to his prayers: [The boy] hopes for a foaming boar, or tawny lion to charge down the mountain.
(So far, the hunters have seen wild goats and deer; Ascanius, in his youthful enthusiasm, wants more challenging game.)
- [...] and that [Ascanius] — among such docile flocks — be given [an answer] to his prayers: [The boy] hopes for a foaming boar, or tawny lion to charge down the mountain.
- [...] spūmantemque darī pecora inter inertia vōtīs
- (of food) without flavor, insipid
Declension
[edit]Third-declension one-termination adjective.
singular | plural | ||||
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masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
nominative | iners | inertēs | inertia | ||
genitive | inertis | inertium | |||
dative | inertī | inertibus | |||
accusative | inertem | iners | inertēs | inertia | |
ablative | inertī | inertibus | |||
vocative | iners | inertēs | inertia |
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “iners”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “iners”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- iners in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂er-
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms prefixed with in- (not)
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin third declension adjectives
- Latin third declension adjectives of one termination
- Latin terms with quotations