ineptia

Latin

Etymology

From ineptus (“silly, foolish, absurd”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /iˈnep.ti.a/, [ɪˈnɛpt̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈnep.t͡si.a/, [iˈnɛpt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

ineptia f (genitive ineptiae); first declension

1. silliness, folly, absurdity

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ineptia	ineptiae
genitive	ineptiae	ineptiārum
dative	ineptiae	ineptiīs
accusative	ineptiam	ineptiās
ablative	ineptiā	ineptiīs
vocative	ineptia	ineptiae

Descendants

• → French: ineptie
• → Italian: inezia

References

• “ineptia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ineptia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ineptia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • extravagant fictions of fancy: opinionum commenta, ineptiae, monstra, portenta