ineptia

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Latin

Etymology

From ineptus (“silly, foolish, absurd”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

Noun

ineptia f (genitive ineptiae); first declension

  1. silliness, folly, absurdity

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative ineptia ineptiae
genitive ineptiae ineptiārum
dative ineptiae ineptiīs
accusative ineptiam ineptiās
ablative ineptiā ineptiīs
vocative ineptia ineptiae

Descendants

  • → French: ineptie
  • → Italian: inezia

References

  • “ineptia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ineptia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ineptia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • extravagant fictions of fancy: opinionum commenta, ineptiae, monstra, portenta
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