importunus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From in- (“not”) + portus + -nus. From Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”). From *per- (“to penetrate; to cross (water)”) + *-tus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /im.porˈtuː.nus/, [ɪmpɔrˈt̪uːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /im.porˈtu.nus/, [imporˈt̪uːnus]
Adjective
importūnus (feminine importūna, neuter importūnum, comparative importūnior, superlative importūnissimus); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | importūnus | importūna | importūnum | importūnī | importūnae | importūna | |
| Genitive | importūnī | importūnae | importūnī | importūnōrum | importūnārum | importūnōrum | |
| Dative | importūnō | importūnō | importūnīs | ||||
| Accusative | importūnum | importūnam | importūnum | importūnōs | importūnās | importūna | |
| Ablative | importūnō | importūnā | importūnō | importūnīs | |||
| Vocative | importūne | importūna | importūnum | importūnī | importūnae | importūna | |
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Descendants
References
- “importunus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “importunus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- importunus 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)
- importunus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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