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inops
inops
Latin
Adjective
inops m, f, n (genitive inopis); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
| 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 | ||
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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “inops”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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)
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(ambiguous) to suffer from want of a thing: inopia alicuius rei laborare, premi
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(ambiguous) richness of ideas: crebritas or copia (opp. inopia) sententiarum or simply copia
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(ambiguous) poverty of expression: inopia verborum
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(ambiguous) want of corn; scarcity in the corn-market: inopia (opp. copia) rei frumentariae
- ill-watered: aquae, aquarum inops