ignarus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *engnāros. Equivalent to in- (“un-”) +‎ gnārus (“knowing”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /iɡˈnaː.rus/, [ɪŋˈnäːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iɲˈɲa.rus/, [iɲˈɲäːrus]

Adjective

ignārus (feminine ignāra, neuter ignārum, comparative ignārior, superlative ignārissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. ignorant, unaware, not knowing

   Synonyms: nescius, ignōrāns, īnscius, nesciēns, expers

   Antonyms: cōnsciēns, cognōscēns, cōnscius, scius, sciēns

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.198:

     “neque enim ignārī sumus ante malōrum”

     “neither indeed are we unaware of earlier misfortunes”

2. incapable, incompetent, unable

   Synonym: hospes

   Antonym: gnārus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ignārus	ignāra	ignārum		ignārī	ignārae	ignāra
genitive	ignārī	ignārae	ignārī		ignārōrum	ignārārum	ignārōrum
dative	ignārō	ignārae	ignārō		ignārīs
accusative	ignārum	ignāram	ignārum		ignārōs	ignārās	ignāra
ablative	ignārō	ignārā	ignārō		ignārīs
vocative	ignāre	ignāra	ignārum		ignārī	ignārae	ignāra

Descendants

• French: ignare
• Galician: ignaro
• Italian: ignaro
  • → English: ignaro
• Spanish: ignaro

References

• ignarus in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• “ignarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ignarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ignarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I know very well: non sum ignarus, nescius (not non sum inscius)
    
• Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.