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Latin
Etymology
From in- + perītus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
imperītus (feminine imperīta, neuter imperītum, comparative imperītior, superlative imperītissimus, adverb imperītē); first/second-declension adjective
- unskilled
- Synonyms: rudis, iners, inexpertus, ignārus, hospes
- Antonyms: expertus, perītus, gnarus, doctus, callidus, instructus, cōnsultus, magister
- unfamiliar, ignorant of, unacquainted with, inexperienced
- Synonyms: hospes, inexpertus
- Antonym: expertus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “imperitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “imperitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- imperitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have had no experience of the world: (rerum) imperitum esse