infinitus
Latin
Etymology
From in- + fīnītus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /in.fiːˈniː.tus/, [ĩːfiːˈniːt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.fiˈni.tus/, [iɱfiˈniːt̪us]
Adjective
īnfīnītus (feminine īnfīnīta, neuter īnfīnītum); first/second-declension adjective
- boundless, unlimited, endless
- infinite
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | īnfīnītus | īnfīnīta | īnfīnītum | īnfīnītī | īnfīnītae | īnfīnīta | |
| Genitive | īnfīnītī | īnfīnītae | īnfīnītī | īnfīnītōrum | īnfīnītārum | īnfīnītōrum | |
| Dative | īnfīnītō | īnfīnītō | īnfīnītīs | ||||
| Accusative | īnfīnītum | īnfīnītam | īnfīnītum | īnfīnītōs | īnfīnītās | īnfīnīta | |
| Ablative | īnfīnītō | īnfīnītā | īnfīnītō | īnfīnītīs | |||
| Vocative | īnfīnīte | īnfīnīta | īnfīnītum | īnfīnītī | īnfīnītae | īnfīnīta | |
Related terms
- īnfīnībilis
- īnfīnītās
- īnfīnītē
- īnfīnītiō
- īnfīnītīvus
- īnfīnītum
Descendants
Descendants of infinitus in other languages
- → Catalan: infinit (learned)
- English: infinite
- French: infini
- → German: infinit
- Galician: infinito, infinto
- Italian: infinito
- → Maltese: infinit
- Portuguese: infinito, infindo
- Romanian: infinit
- → Spanish: infinito (learned)
References
- “infīnītus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “infinitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- infīnītus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 814/3
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to choose one from a large number of instances: ex infinita exemplorum copia unum (pauca) sumere, decerpere (eligere)
- abundance of material: infinita et immensa materia
- despotic, tyrannous rule: potestas immoderata, infinita
- to choose one from a large number of instances: ex infinita exemplorum copia unum (pauca) sumere, decerpere (eligere)
- “infīnītus” on pages 899–900 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “infinitus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 533/1