innatus

innatus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of innāscor (“grow; arise, originate in”).

Participle

innātus (feminine innāta, neuter innātum); first/second-declension participle

1. arisen, originated in, having arisen or originated in
2. innate, inborn, inherent, natural, native

   Synonym: genuinus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	innātus	innāta	innātum		innātī	innātae	innāta
Genitive	innātī	innātae	innātī		innātōrum	innātārum	innātōrum
Dative	innātō		innātō		innātīs
Accusative	innātum	innātam	innātum		innātōs	innātās	innāta
Ablative	innātō	innātā	innātō		innātīs
Vocative	innāte	innāta	innātum		innātī	innātae	innāta

Descendants

• → English: innate
• → French: inné
• Italian: innato
• → Portuguese: inato
• Old French: enné
• → Spanish: innato

References

• “innatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “innatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• innatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• innatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) innate ideas: notiones animo (menti) insitae, innatae
    
  • (ambiguous) something is contrary to my moral sense, goes against my principles: aliquid abhorret a meis moribus (opp. insitum [atque innatum] est animo or in animo alicuius)
    
  • (ambiguous) to have innate ideas of the Godhead; to believe in the Deity by intuition: insitas (innatas) dei cognitiones habere (N. D. 1. 17. 44)
    
  • (ambiguous) belief in God is part of every one's nature: omnibus innatum est et in animo quasi insculptum esse deum