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Latin
Etymology
Traditionally from in- (“un-, not”) + gens (“kind, family, race”); something that goes beyond what is natural for its kind. Sometimes linked to Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s, from an extended form of the oblique stem *m̥ǵh₂- ; this would make it cognate to magnus, Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas) and Sanskrit महत् (mahat)[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
ingēns (genitive ingentis, comparative ingentior, superlative ingentissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective
- huge, vast, enormous
- Synonyms: impēnsus, immēnsus, vāstus, immānis
- immoderate, exorbitant
- extraordinary, unnatural
- (figuratively) mighty, powerful
- Synonyms: praevalēns, fortis, potis, potēns, validus, strēnuus, firmus, compos
- Antonyms: dēbilis, languidus, aeger, fractus, tenuis, īnfirmus, inops
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
- The ablative singular also appears as ingente.
Descendants
References
- “ingens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ingens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ingens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a numerous army: ingens, maximus exercitus (not numerosus)
- to cause great slaughter, carnage: ingentem caedem edere (Liv. 5. 13)