incredibilis

Latin

Etymology

From in- +‎ crēdibilis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

incrēdibilis (neuter incrēdibile, adverb incrēdibiliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. unbelievable, incredible

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative incrēdibilis incrēdibile incrēdibilēs incrēdibilia
genitive incrēdibilis incrēdibilium
dative incrēdibilī incrēdibilibus
accusative incrēdibilem incrēdibile incrēdibilēs
incrēdibilīs 		incrēdibilia
ablative incrēdibilī incrēdibilibus
vocative incrēdibilis incrēdibile incrēdibilēs incrēdibilia

Descendants

  • Catalan: increïble
  • English: incredible
  • French: incrédible
  • Italian: incredibile, incredevole
  • Portuguese: incrível
  • Romanian: incredibil
  • Spanish: increíble

References

  • “incredibilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “incredibilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "incredibilis", 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)
  • incredibilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • it sounds incredible: incredibile dictu est
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