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Latin
Etymology
Formed as if the perfect passive participle of a (not necessarily extant) verb *īnfendō, from in- + *fendō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to strike”). Compare dēfēnsus from dēfendō. Contrast īnfestus, which is unrelated .
Pronunciation
Adjective
īnfēnsus (feminine īnfēnsa, neuter īnfēnsum); first/second-declension adjective
- hostile, inimical, aggressive
- Synonyms: hostīlis, inimīcus, īnfestus, adversus
- Antonyms: amīcus, blandus, cōmis, affābilis, facilis, benevolēns
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.320–321:
- “Tē propter Libycae gentēs Nomadumque tyrannī / īnfēnsī Tyriī.”
- “Because of you, the Libyan tribes and the Numidian king hate , Tyrian people hostile .”
- enraged
- dangerous
- Synonyms: anceps, perīculōsus, dubius, capitālis
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “infensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “infensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- infensus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.