incautus

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Latin

Etymology

From in- +‎ cautus (careful).

Pronunciation

Adjective

incautus (feminine incauta, neuter incautum, comparative incautior); first/second-declension adjective

  1. incautious, heedless, reckless, unsuspecting, improvident, in one’s ignorance, not careful, careless
    Antonyms: intentus, intēnsus, attentus, cautus
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.69-71:
      quālis coniectā cerva sagittā,
      quam procul incautam nemora inter Crēsia fīxit
      pāstor agēns tēlīs, .
      like a deer, wounded by an arrow — an unsuspecting amid a Cretan woodland — that has been pierced afar, a shepherd, driving in darts, .
  2. (in a passive sense) unforeseen, unexpected, unguarded against, off one’s guard

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative incautus incauta incautum incautī incautae incauta
genitive incautī incautae incautī incautōrum incautārum incautōrum
dative incautō incautae incautō incautīs
accusative incautum incautam incautum incautōs incautās incauta
ablative incautō incautā incautō incautīs
vocative incaute incauta incautum incautī incautae incauta

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: incaut
  • Italian: incauto
  • Portuguese: incauto
  • Spanish: incauto

References

  • incautus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • incautus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • incautus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to surprise and defeat the enemy: opprimere hostes (imprudentes, incautos, inopinantes)

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