innumerus

Latin

Etymology

From in- +‎ numerus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈnu.me.rus/, [ɪnˈnʊmɛrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈnu.me.rus/, [inˈnuːmerus]

Adjective

innumerus (feminine innumera, neuter innumerum); first/second-declension adjective

1. countless, innumerable, numberless
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.360:

     innumerī circā stantque silentque virī.

     And innumerable men stand round [the king], and they are silent.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	innumerus	innumera	innumerum		innumerī	innumerae	innumera
genitive	innumerī	innumerae	innumerī		innumerōrum	innumerārum	innumerōrum
dative	innumerō	innumerae	innumerō		innumerīs
accusative	innumerum	innumeram	innumerum		innumerōs	innumerās	innumera
ablative	innumerō	innumerā	innumerō		innumerīs
vocative	innumere	innumera	innumerum		innumerī	innumerae	innumera

Descendants

• Catalan: innúmer
• English: innumerous
• Galician: innúmero
• Italian: innumere
• Portuguese: inúmero
• Spanish: innúmero

References

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