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Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
inopīnus (feminine inopīna, neuter inopīnum); first/second-declension adjective
- unexpected
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid V.857:
- Vix primos inopina quies laxaverat artus...
- Scarcely had the unexpected rest first relaxed his limbs...
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “inopinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inopinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inopinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.