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impius

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Latin

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Etymology

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From in- +‎ pius.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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impius (feminine impia, neuter impium, superlative impiissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. disloyal, undutiful
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.495–497:
      “[...] et arma virī thalamō quae fīxa relīquit
      impius, exuviāsque omnīs, lectumque iugālem
      quō periī: superimpōnās [...].”
      “And the man’s weapons that he left hanging in our bedchamber — [so] disloyal! — and all his clothes, and the bridal bed on which I was ruined: pile [everything] on top [of the pyre].”
      (Dido alludes with disdain to the epic’s recurrent epithet for its hero — e.g.: “Sum pius Aeneas,” 1.378 — now that this so-called dutiful man has abandoned her.)
  2. godless, impious, unpatriotic
  3. damned, accursed
  4. wicked
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs. 28.15:
      leō rugiēns et ursus ēsuriēns prīnceps impius super populum pauperem
      As a roaring lion, and a hungry bear, so is a wicked prince over the poor people. (trans.: Douay-Rheims Bible)

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative impius impia impium impiī impiae impia
genitive impiī impiae impiī impiōrum impiārum impiōrum
dative impiō impiae impiō impiīs
accusative impium impiam impium impiōs impiās impia
ablative impiō impiā impiō impiīs
vocative impie impia impium impiī impiae impia

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Catalan: impiu
  • English: impious
  • French: impie
  • Galician: impío
  • Italian: impio, empio
  • Portuguese: ímpio
  • Spanish: impío

References

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  • impius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • impius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • impius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.