inops

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Latin

Etymology

From in + ops (power, ability, wealth).

Pronunciation

Adjective

inops (genitive inopis); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. helpless, destitute, indigent, poor
    Synonyms: egens, pauper, exiguus
    Antonyms: opulentus, opulens, dives, ditis, dis, locuples
  2. deprived, lacking, needy (+ genitive or ab + ablative)
    civitas inops consiliian 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)
  3. (of inanimate things) mean, wretched, contemptible
  4. 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.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative inops inopēs inopia
Genitive inopis inopium
Dative inopī inopibus
Accusative inopem inops inopēs inopia
Ablative inopī inopibus
Vocative inops inopēs inopia

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