immensus
Latin
Alternative forms
- inmēnsus
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /imˈmen.sus/, [ɪmˈmẽːs̠ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /imˈmen.sus/, [imˈmɛnsus]
Adjective
immēnsus (feminine immēnsa, neuter immēnsum); first/second-declension adjective
- immeasurable, boundless, endless, vast, immense
- Synonyms: impēnsus, vāstus, ingēns, immānis
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | immēnsus | immēnsa | immēnsum | immēnsī | immēnsae | immēnsa | |
| Genitive | immēnsī | immēnsae | immēnsī | immēnsōrum | immēnsārum | immēnsōrum | |
| Dative | immēnsō | immēnsō | immēnsīs | ||||
| Accusative | immēnsum | immēnsam | immēnsum | immēnsōs | immēnsās | immēnsa | |
| Ablative | immēnsō | immēnsā | immēnsō | immēnsīs | |||
| Vocative | immēnse | immēnsa | immēnsum | immēnsī | immēnsae | immēnsa | |
Descendants
- French: immense
- Italian: immenso
- Piedmontese: imens
- Portuguese: imenso
- Sicilian: mmenzu
References
- “immensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “immensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- immensus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) abundance of material: infinita et immensa materia
- (ambiguous) abundance of material: infinita et immensa materia