infinitus

Latin

Etymology

From in- +‎ fīnītus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.fiːˈniː.tus/, [ĩːfiːˈniːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.fiˈni.tus/, [iɱfiˈniːt̪us]

Adjective

īnfīnītus (feminine īnfīnīta, neuter īnfīnītum); first/second-declension adjective

1. boundless, unlimited, endless
2. infinite

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	īnfīnītus	īnfīnīta	īnfīnītum		īnfīnītī	īnfīnītae	īnfīnīta
Genitive	īnfīnītī	īnfīnītae	īnfīnītī		īnfīnītōrum	īnfīnītārum	īnfīnītōrum
Dative	īnfīnītō		īnfīnītō		īnfīnītīs
Accusative	īnfīnītum	īnfīnītam	īnfīnītum		īnfīnītōs	īnfīnītās	īnfīnīta
Ablative	īnfīnītō	īnfīnītā	īnfīnītō		īnfīnītīs
Vocative	īnfīnīte	īnfīnīta	īnfīnītum		īnfīnītī	īnfīnītae	īnfīnīta

Derived terms

• Latin *infinitesimus

Related terms

• īnfīnībilis
• īnfīnītās
• īnfīnītē
• īnfīnītiō
• īnfīnītīvus
• īnfīnītum

 

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: infinit (learned)
• English: infinite
• French: infini
• → German: infinit
• Galician: infinito, infinto
• Italian: infinito
  • → Maltese: infinit
• Portuguese: infinito, infindo
• Romanian: infinit
• → Spanish: infinito (learned)

References

• “infīnītus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “infinitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• infīnītus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 814/3.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to choose one from a large number of instances: ex infinita exemplorum copia unum (pauca) sumere, decerpere (eligere)
    
  • abundance of material: infinita et immensa materia
    
  • despotic, tyrannous rule: potestas immoderata, infinita
    
• “infīnītus” on pages 899–900 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “infinitus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 533/1