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Latin
Etymology
From nefās. Compare with nefārius, nefandus, infandus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
nefāstus (feminine nefāsta, neuter nefāstum); first/second-declension adjective
- (of a day) on which judgment could not be pronounced or assemblies of the people be held
- (figuratively) contrary to the sacred rites or to religion; irreligious, impious; wicked, profane, abandoned; unlucky, inauspicious; hurtful
- Ille et nefasto te posuit die... — "Whoever planted you that cursed day..." (Horace, Ode II.13)
- Quid intactum nefasti liquimus? — "What have we, in our impiety, left inviolate?" (Horace, Ode I.35)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “nefastus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nefastus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nefastus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.