incautus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From in- + cautus (“careful”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈkau̯.tus/, [ɪŋˈkäu̯t̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈkau̯.tus/, [iŋˈkäːu̯t̪us]
Adjective edit
incautus (feminine incauta, neuter incautum, comparative incautior); first/second-declension adjective
- incautious, heedless, reckless, unsuspecting, improvident
- (in a passive sense) unforeseen, unexpected, unguarded against
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | incautus | incauta | incautum | incautī | incautae | incauta | |
| Genitive | incautī | incautae | incautī | incautōrum | incautārum | incautōrum | |
| Dative | incautō | incautō | incautīs | ||||
| Accusative | incautum | incautam | incautum | incautōs | incautās | incauta | |
| Ablative | incautō | incautā | incautō | incautīs | |||
| Vocative | incaute | incauta | incautum | incautī | incautae | incauta | |
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References edit
- “incautus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “incautus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- incautus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to surprise and defeat the enemy: opprimere hostes (imprudentes, incautos, inopinantes)
- to surprise and defeat the enemy: opprimere hostes (imprudentes, incautos, inopinantes)