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Latin
Etymology
From in- + (g)nāvus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ignāvus (feminine ignāva, neuter ignāvum, comparative ignāvior, superlative ignāvissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- lazy, slothful, inactive, sluggish
- Synonyms: dēses, iners, sēgnis, piger, socors, murcidus, languidus
- Antonyms: vīvus, strēnuus, impiger, alacer, ācer
- unproductive, idle
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.434–435:
- aut agmine factō
ignāvum fūcōs pecus ā praesēpibus arcent- or by banding as an army drive the drones, an idle herd, from the hive
- cowardly
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “ignavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ignavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ignavus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.