inexpertus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /i.nekˈsper.tus/, [ɪnɛkˈs̠pɛrt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.nekˈsper.tus/, [inekˈspɛrt̪us]

Adjective

inexpertus (feminine inexperta, neuter inexpertum); first/second-declension adjective

1. untried, not having tried, unused, unproven
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.414–415:

     [...] et supplex animōs submittere amōrī, / nē quid inexpertum frūstrā moritūra relinquat.

     [Dido] bows down her pride and submits to passion, [so as] not — having left anything untried — to die in vain.
     (The one appearance of the word in Virgil’s poetry.)

2. inexperienced in, unaccustomed to a thing

   Synonyms: hospes, imperītus

   Antonym: expertus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	inexpertus	inexperta	inexpertum		inexpertī	inexpertae	inexperta
Genitive	inexpertī	inexpertae	inexpertī		inexpertōrum	inexpertārum	inexpertōrum
Dative	inexpertō		inexpertō		inexpertīs
Accusative	inexpertum	inexpertam	inexpertum		inexpertōs	inexpertās	inexperta
Ablative	inexpertō	inexpertā	inexpertō		inexpertīs
Vocative	inexperte	inexperta	inexpertum		inexpertī	inexpertae	inexperta

References

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