inexpertus

Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

inexpertus (feminine inexperta, neuter inexpertum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. untried, not having tried, unused, unproven
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.414–415:
      [...] et supplex animōs submittere amōrī, / nē quid inexpertum frūstrā moritūra relinquat.
      [Dido] bows down her pride and submits to passion, [so as] not — having left anything untried — to die in vain.
      (The one appearance of the word in Virgil’s poetry.)
  2. inexperienced in, unaccustomed to a thing
    Synonyms: hospes, imperītus
    Antonym: expertus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative inexpertus inexperta inexpertum inexpertī inexpertae inexperta
genitive inexpertī inexpertae inexpertī inexpertōrum inexpertārum inexpertōrum
dative inexpertō inexpertae inexpertō inexpertīs
accusative inexpertum inexpertam inexpertum inexpertōs inexpertās inexperta
ablative inexpertō inexpertā inexpertō inexpertīs
vocative inexperte inexperta inexpertum inexpertī inexpertae inexperta

References

  • “inexpertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “inexpertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • inexpertus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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