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Latin
Etymology
From plūma (“feather”) + in- -is (privative adjective-forming circumfix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
implūmis (neuter implūme, comparative implūmior, superlative implūmissimus); third-declension two-termination adjective
- featherless, without feathers
- beardless, bald, without hair
- callow, immature
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Descendants
References
- “implumis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “implumis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- implumis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.