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Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
inexpertus (feminine inexperta, neuter inexpertum); first/second-declension adjective
- untried, not having tried, unused, unproven
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.414–415:
- et supplex animōs submittere amōrī, / nē quid inexpertum frūstrā moritūra relinquat.
- bows down her pride and submits to passion, not — having left anything untried — to die in vain.
(The one appearance of the word in Virgil’s poetry.)
- inexperienced in, unaccustomed to a thing
- Synonyms: hospes, imperītus
- Antonym: expertus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “inexpertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inexpertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inexpertus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.