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Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
invius (feminine invia, neuter invium); first/second-declension adjective
- impassable, inaccessible, impenetrable
- trackless, pathless, without a road or way through
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.151:
- Postquam altōs ventum in montīs atque invia lustra, .
- After they came to the mountain heights and pathless forest lairs , .
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “invius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “invius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- invius 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)
- invius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.