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incautus
incautus
Latin
Adjective
incautus m (feminine incauta, neuter incautum); first/second declension
- incautious, heedless, unsuspecting, improvident
- (in a passive sense) unforeseen, unexpected, unguarded against
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | incautus | incauta | incautum | incautī | incautae | incauta | |
| genitive | incautī | incautae | incautī | incautōrum | incautārum | incautōrum | |
| dative | incautō | incautō | incautīs | ||||
| accusative | incautum | incautam | incautum | incautōs | incautās | incauta | |
| ablative | incautō | incautā | incautō | incautīs | |||
| vocative | incaute | incauta | incautum | incautī | incautae | incauta | |
Derived terms
- incautē
- incautēla
Descendants
References
- incautus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- incautus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “incautus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to surprise and defeat the enemy: opprimere hostes (imprudentes, incautos, inopinantes)
- to surprise and defeat the enemy: opprimere hostes (imprudentes, incautos, inopinantes)