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Latin
Etymology
From in- + fīnītus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
īnfīnītus (feminine īnfīnīta, neuter īnfīnītum); first/second-declension adjective
- boundless, unlimited, endless
- infinite
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Related terms
Descendants
Descendants of infinitus in other languages
References
- “infīnītus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “infinitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- infīnītus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 814/3.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to choose one from a large number of instances: ex infinita exemplorum copia unum (pauca) sumere, decerpere (eligere)
- abundance of material: infinita et immensa materia
- despotic, tyrannous rule: potestas immoderata, infinita
- “infīnītus” on pages 899–900 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “infinitus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 533/1