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Latin
Etymology
From in (“without, not”) + faustus (“favorable, fortunate”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
īnfaustus (feminine īnfausta, neuter īnfaustum); first/second-declension adjective
- unfavorable, unfortunate, unpropitious, luckless, ill-fated, inauspicious, unlucky
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “unfavorable, unfortunate”): faustus
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “infaustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “infaustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- infaustus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- infaustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- an evil omen; presage of ill: omen infaustum, triste