inviolate

English

Etymology

From Latin inviolātus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvaɪ.ə.lət/, /ɪnˈvaɪ.əʊˌleɪt/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

inviolate (comparative more inviolate, superlative most inviolate)

1. Not violated; free from violation or hurt of any kind; secure against violation or impairment.
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

     His fortune of arms was still inviolate.

   • 1987 February 8, Robert Storen, “On Being Cozy with Mister Right”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 29, page 12:

     A partner can also, hopefully, be trusted more fully than any other person in our lives. Our courts recognize this by refusing to allow a person to testify against his or her spouse. The sanctity of the home, by which they mean the couple, is inviolate.

2. Incorruptible.
   • 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)

     inviolate truth

   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Virgils Gnat”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

     There chaste Alceste lives inviolate.

Related terms

• inviolacy
• inviolately
• inviolateness

Translations

Translations

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: կոյս (koys)

• French: inviolé (fr)
• German: unbeschadet (de)
• Greek: απαραβίαστος (el) (aparavíastos)

  Ancient: ἀκραιφνής (akraiphnḗs), ᾰ̓́σῡλος (ắsūlos)

• Irish: ógh
• Italian: inviolato (it), impenetrato
• Latin: intemerātus, inviolātus
• Manx: slane, neuhrulleeit
• Old English: unġewemmed, unwemme
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: све̑т

  Roman: svȇt (sh)

• Spanish: inviolado (es)
• Ukrainian: непору́шений (neporúšenyj)
• Urdu: استوار (ustuwār)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “inviolate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.vi.oˈla.te/, /in.vjoˈla.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: in‧vi‧o‧là‧te, in‧vio‧là‧te

Adjective

inviolate

1. feminine plural of inviolato

Anagrams

• involiate, lievitano, olivetani, violentai, violinate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.u̯i.oˈlaː.te/, [ɪnu̯iɔˈɫ̪äːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.vi.oˈla.te/, [iɱvioˈläːt̪e]

Adjective

inviolāte

1. vocative masculine singular of inviolātus

References

• “inviolate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inviolate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers