insitus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of īnserō (“sow, plant”).

Participle

īnsitus (feminine īnsita, neuter īnsitum); first/second-declension participle

1. sown, planted
2. inserted
3. implanted, grafted

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	īnsitus	īnsita	īnsitum		īnsitī	īnsitae	īnsita
genitive	īnsitī	īnsitae	īnsitī		īnsitōrum	īnsitārum	īnsitōrum
dative	īnsitō	īnsitae	īnsitō		īnsitīs
accusative	īnsitum	īnsitam	īnsitum		īnsitōs	īnsitās	īnsita
ablative	īnsitō	īnsitā	īnsitō		īnsitīs
vocative	īnsite	īnsita	īnsitum		īnsitī	īnsitae	īnsita

References

• “insitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “insitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• insitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • innate ideas: notiones animo (menti) insitae, innatae
    
  • something is contrary to my moral sense, goes against my principles: aliquid abhorret a meis moribus (opp. insitum [atque innatum] est animo or in animo alicuius)
    
  • to have innate ideas of the Godhead; to believe in the Deity by intuition: insitas (innatas) dei cognitiones habere (N. D. 1. 17. 44)