inimicus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From in- (“not”) + amīcus (“friend”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
inimīcus m (genitive inimīcī); second declension
- enemy (someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else)
Declension[edit]
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | inimīcus | inimīcī |
| genitive | inimīcī | inimīcōrum |
| dative | inimīcō | inimīcīs |
| accusative | inimīcum | inimīcōs |
| ablative | inimīcō | inimīcīs |
| vocative | inimīce | inimīcī |
Descendants[edit]
Adjective[edit]
inimīcus (feminine inimīca, neuter inimīcum); first/second declension
Inflection[edit]
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | inimīcus | inimīca | inimīcum | inimīcī | inimīcae | inimīca | |
| genitive | inimīcī | inimīcae | inimīcī | inimīcōrum | inimīcārum | inimīcōrum | |
| dative | inimīcō | inimīcō | inimīcīs | ||||
| accusative | inimīcum | inimīcam | inimīcum | inimīcōs | inimīcās | inimīca | |
| ablative | inimīcō | inimīcā | inimīcō | inimīcīs | |||
| vocative | inimīce | inimīca | inimīcum | inimīcī | inimīcae | inimīca | |
- comparative: inimicior, superlative: inimicissimus
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- inimicus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- inimicus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- du Cange, Charles (1883), “inimicus”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
- “inimicus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
- Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). ISBN 0-00-470763-X. page 180.
