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Latin
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *enratos, from *en- + *ratos, whence also Latin ratus, past participle of *rēōr, whence Latin reor, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er-.
Pronunciation
Adjective
irritus (feminine irrita, neuter irritum); first/second-declension adjective
- invalid, void, null and void
- Synonyms: inānis, vānus
c. 69 CE – 122 CE,
Suetonius,
De vita Caesarum VI 33:
- Certē omnibus rērum verbōrumque contumēliīs mortuum īnsectātus est, modo stultitiae modo saevitiae arguēns; nam et mōrārī eum dēsīsse inter hominēs prōductā prīmā syllabā iocābātur multaque dēcrēta et cōnstitūta, ut īnsipientis atque dēlīrī, prō irritīs habuit.
- He certainly blamed the dead one with all insults, of deeds and of words, sometimes reproving his stupidity, other times his cruelty; for he jested about him having ceased to be a fool among people (with a lengthened first syllable) as well as having many decrees and edicts of his void, as if those of an unwise and crazy one.
- ineffective, useless, irrelevant
- Synonyms: incommodus, inūtilis, ineptus, ingrātus, grātuītus, īnfēlīx
- Antonyms: opportūnus, commodus, habilis, idōneus, conveniēns, ūtilis, ūtēnsilis, aptus, salūber
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Noun
irrītus m (genitive irrītūs); fourth declension
- Alternative form of hirrītus
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
References
- “irritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- irritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to frustrate, nullify: ad irritum redigere aliquid
- expectation is overthrown: spes ad irritum cadit, ad irritum redigitur
- to annul, revoke a will: testamentum irritum facere, rumpere
- a law is valid: lex rata est (opp. irrita)
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 326