nefastous
English
Etymology
From Latin nefastus.
Adjective
nefastous (comparative more nefastous, superlative most nefastous)
- (rare) inauspicious, disastrous, ill-omened
- 1654, Francis Rous and Zachary Bogan, Archaelogiae Atticae libri septem: Seaven books of the Attick antiquities, book 4, chapter 8, page 185:
- THE time of the yeare which they deemed most lucky to Marry in (for almost every Nation has had their nefastous time and dayes) was the first Moneth of the Winter.
- 1654, Francis Rous and Zachary Bogan, Archaelogiae Atticae libri septem: Seaven books of the Attick antiquities, book 4, chapter 8, page 185: