insatiabilis

Latin

Etymology

From in- +‎ satiābilis (“satiable”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.sa.tiˈaː.bi.lis/, [ĩːs̠ät̪iˈäːbɪlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.sat.t͡siˈa.bi.lis/, [insät̪ː͡s̪iˈäːbilis]

Adjective

īnsatiābilis (neuter īnsatiābile, adverb insatiābiliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. insatiable

   Synonym: īnsaturābilis

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	īnsatiābilis	īnsatiābile		īnsatiābilēs	īnsatiābilia
Genitive	īnsatiābilis			īnsatiābilium
Dative	īnsatiābilī			īnsatiābilibus
Accusative	īnsatiābilem	īnsatiābile		īnsatiābilēs īnsatiābilīs	īnsatiābilia
Ablative	īnsatiābilī			īnsatiābilibus
Vocative	īnsatiābilis	īnsatiābile		īnsatiābilēs	īnsatiābilia

Descendants

• → Old French: insaciable
  • Middle French: insatiable
    • French: insatiable
    • → Middle English: insaciable
      • English: insatiable
• → Italian: insaziabile

References

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