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Latin
Etymology
From in- + cautus (“careful”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
incautus (feminine incauta, neuter incautum, comparative incautior); first/second-declension adjective
- 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, .
- (in a passive sense) unforeseen, unexpected, unguarded against, off one’s guard
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
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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