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Latin
Etymology
From ex + pars (“part”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
expers (genitive expertis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- without, lacking in, deprived (+ genitive or ablative)
- Synonyms: vacuus, carēns, viduus
- Antonyms: abundāns, cōpiōsus, cumulātus, largus, ūber, fēcundus
- freed from, exempted, immune
- Synonyms: līber, solūtus, immūnis
- excluded, not participant (+ genitive)
- Antonyms: particeps, affīnis
- unaware, ignorant
- Synonyms: ignārus, nescius, nesciēns, īnscius, ignōrāns
- Antonyms: cōnsciēns, cognōscēns, cōnscius, scius, sciēns
Usage notes
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
References
- “expers”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “expers”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- expers in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- expers in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be well-informed, erudite: multarum rerum cognitione imbutum esse (opp. litterarum or eruditionis expertem esse or rudem esse)
- to be quite uncivilised: omnis cultus et humanitatis expertem esse
- to be unable to express one's ideas: orationis expertem esse
- to be absolutely wanting in sympathy: omnis humanitatis expertem esse
- to be endowed with reason: rationis participem (opp. expertem) esse
- (ambiguous) we know from experience: experti scimus, didicimus
- Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.