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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of īnserō (“sow, plant”).
Participle
īnsitus (feminine īnsita, neuter īnsitum); first/second-declension participle
- sown, planted
- inserted
- implanted, grafted
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “insitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “insitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- insitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- innate ideas: notiones animo (menti) insitae, innatae
- something is contrary to my moral sense, goes against my principles: aliquid abhorret a meis moribus (opp. insitum est animo or in animo alicuius)
- to have innate ideas of the Godhead; to believe in the Deity by intuition: insitas (innatas) dei cognitiones habere (N. D. 1. 17. 44)