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infestus
infestus
Latin
Etymology
Participle of the obsolete verb *īnfendō, from *fendō (“hit, thrust”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to strike, to kill”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈfes.tus/, [ĩːˈfɛs.tʊs]
Adjective
īnfestus m (feminine īnfesta, neuter īnfestum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | īnfestus | īnfesta | īnfestum | īnfestī | īnfestae | īnfesta | |
| genitive | īnfestī | īnfestae | īnfestī | īnfestōrum | īnfestārum | īnfestōrum | |
| dative | īnfestō | īnfestō | īnfestīs | ||||
| accusative | īnfestum | īnfestam | īnfestum | īnfestōs | īnfestās | īnfesta | |
| ablative | īnfestō | īnfestā | īnfestō | īnfestīs | |||
| vocative | īnfeste | īnfesta | īnfestum | īnfestī | īnfestae | īnfesta | |
Derived terms
References
- infestus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- infestus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “infestus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.