inops
Latin
Etymology
From in + ops (“power, ability, wealth”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈi.nops/, [ˈɪnɔps̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈi.nops/, [ˈiːnops]
Adjective
inops (genitive inopis); third-declension one-termination adjective
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | inops | inopēs | inopia | ||
| Genitive | inopis | inopium | |||
| Dative | inopī | inopibus | |||
| Accusative | inopem | inops | inopēs | inopia | |
| Ablative | inopī | inopibus | |||
| Vocative | inops | inopēs | inopia | ||
inopum is often the genitive plural
References
- “inops”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inops”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inops in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- ill-watered: aquae, aquarum inops
- to earn a precarious livelihood: vitam inopem sustentare, tolerare
- to be perplexed: consilii inopem esse
- to endure a life of privation: vitam (inopem) tolerare (B. G. 7. 77)
- (ambiguous) to suffer from want of a thing: inopia alicuius rei laborare, premi
- (ambiguous) richness of ideas: crebritas or copia (opp. inopia) sententiarum or simply copia
- (ambiguous) poverty of expression: inopia verborum
- (ambiguous) want of corn; scarcity in the corn-market: inopia (opp. copia) rei frumentariae
- ill-watered: aquae, aquarum inops