insons
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈĩː.sõːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈin.sons]
Adjective
īnsōns (genitive īnsontis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- innocent
- c. 105–116, Tacitus, Ab excessu divi Augusti (Annales), volume IV, section XIII:
- Ac ni Aelius Lamia et L. Apronius qui Africam obtinuerant insontem protexissent, claritudine infausti generis et paternis adversis foret abstractus
- And if Aelius Lamia and L. Apronius who had governed Africa had not proclaimed him innocent, he would have been dragged down by the fame of his ill-fated house and the disasters of his father
- harmless
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | īnsōns | īnsontēs | īnsontia | ||
| genitive | īnsontis | īnsontium | |||
| dative | īnsontī | īnsontibus | |||
| accusative | īnsontem | īnsōns | īnsontēs | īnsontia | |
| ablative | īnsontī | īnsontibus | |||
| vocative | īnsōns | īnsontēs | īnsontia | ||
Descendants
- Portuguese: insonte
- Spanish: insonte
References
- “insons”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “insons”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “insons”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.