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Esperanto
Pronunciation
Verb
insultus
- conditional of insulti
Ido
Pronunciation
Verb
insultus
- conditional of insultar
Latin
Etymology
Late Latin action noun of īnsiliō.
Pronunciation
Noun
īnsultus m (genitive īnsultūs); fourth declension
- a scoffing, reviling, insult
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “insultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- insultus 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)
- insultus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016