insitus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of īnserō (“sow, plant”).

Participle

īnsitus (feminine īnsita, neuter īnsitum); first/second-declension participle

  1. sown, planted
  2. inserted
  3. implanted, grafted

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative īnsitus īnsita īnsitum īnsitī īnsitae īnsita
genitive īnsitī īnsitae īnsitī īnsitōrum īnsitārum īnsitōrum
dative īnsitō īnsitae īnsitō īnsitīs
accusative īnsitum īnsitam īnsitum īnsitōs īnsitās īnsita
ablative īnsitō īnsitā īnsitō īnsitīs
vocative īnsite īnsita īnsitum īnsitī īnsitae īnsita

Descendants

  • Italian: insito
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *insitāre, *ininsitāre

References

  • “insitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “insitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • insitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • innate ideas: notiones animo (menti) insitae, innatae
    • 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)
    • to have innate ideas of the Godhead; to believe in the Deity by intuition: insitas (innatas) dei cognitiones habere (N. D. 1. 17. 44)
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