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Latin
Etymology
From in + ops (“power, ability, wealth”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
inops (genitive inopis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- helpless, destitute, indigent, poor
- Synonyms: egens, pauper, exiguus
- Antonyms: opulentus, opulens, dives, ditis, dis, locuples
- deprived, lacking, needy (+ genitive or ab + ablative)
- civitas inops consilii ― an irresolute city/ a city incapable to take an initiative
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.31.20:
- manum suam aperuit inopī et palmās suās extendit ad pauperem
- She hath opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her hands to the poor. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
- (of inanimate things) mean, wretched, contemptible
- weak
- Synonyms: dēbilis, languidus, aeger, frāctus, īnfirmus, fessus, mollis, tenuis, obnoxius
- Antonyms: praevalēns, fortis, potis, potēns, validus, strēnuus, compos
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
inopum is often the genitive plural.
References
- “inops”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inops”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inops in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- ill-watered: aquae, aquarum inops
- to earn a precarious livelihood: vitam inopem sustentare, tolerare
- to be perplexed: consilii inopem esse
- to endure a life of privation: vitam (inopem) tolerare (B. G. 7. 77)
- (ambiguous) to suffer from want of a thing: inopia alicuius rei laborare, premi
- (ambiguous) richness of ideas: crebritas or copia (opp. inopia) sententiarum or simply copia
- (ambiguous) poverty of expression: inopia verborum
- (ambiguous) want of corn; scarcity in the corn-market: inopia (opp. copia) rei frumentariae
- dizionario Latino, Olivetti