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Latin
Etymology
From in- + numerus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
innumerus (feminine innumera, neuter innumerum); first/second-declension adjective
- countless, innumerable, numberless
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 3.360:
- innumerī circā stantque silentque virī.
- And innumerable men stand round , and they are silent.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “innumerus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “innumerus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- innumerus 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)
- innumerus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.