inops

inops

Latin

Etymology

From in + ops (“power, ability, wealth”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.nops/, [ˈɪnɔps̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.nops/, [ˈiːnops]

Adjective

inops (genitive inopis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. helpless, destitute, indigent, poor

   Synonyms: egens, pauper, exiguus

   Antonyms: opulentus, opulens, dives, ditis, dis, locuples

2. deprived, lacking, needy (+ genitive or ab + ablative)
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs 31:20:

     manum suam aperuit inopī et palmās suās extendit ad pauperem

     She hath opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her hands to the poor. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

   civitas inops consilii ― an irresolute city/ a city incapable to take an initiative

3. (of inanimate things) mean, wretched, contemptible
4. weak

   Synonyms: dēbilis, languidus, aeger, frāctus, īnfirmus, fessus, mollis, tenuis, obnoxius

   Antonyms: praevalēns, fortis, potis, potēns, validus, strēnuus, compos

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

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

inopum is often the genitive plural.

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
• inops in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (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)
    
  • (ambiguous) to suffer from want of a thing: inopia alicuius rei laborare, premi
    
  • (ambiguous) richness of ideas: crebritas or copia (opp. inopia) sententiarum or simply copia
    
  • (ambiguous) poverty of expression: inopia verborum
    
  • (ambiguous) want of corn; scarcity in the corn-market: inopia (opp. copia) rei frumentariae
    
• dizionario Latino, Olivetti