inops

Latin

Etymology

From in + ops (“power, ability, wealth”)

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈi.nops/, [ˈɪ.nɔps]

Adjective

inops (genitive inopis); third declension

  1. helpless, destitute, indigent, poor
  2. (of inanimate things) mean, wretched, contemptible

Inflection

Third declension.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative inops inops inopēs inopia
Genitive inopis inopis inopium inopium
Dative inopī inopī inopibus inopibus
Accusative inopem inops inopēs inopia
Ablative inopī inopī inopibus inopibus
Vocative inops inops inopēs inopia

inopum is often the genitive plural

References
  • inops in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • inops in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • inops in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • ill-watered: aquae, aquarum inops
    • to earn a precarious livelihood: vitam inopem sustentare, tolerare
    • to be perplexed: consilii inopem esse
    • to endure a life of privation: vitam (inopem) tolerare (B. G. 7. 77)
    • (ambiguous) to suffer from want of a thing: inopia alicuius rei laborare, premi
    • (ambiguous) richness of ideas: crebritas or copia (opp. inopia) sententiarum or simply copia
    • (ambiguous) poverty of expression: inopia verborum
    • (ambiguous) want of corn; scarcity in the corn-market: inopia (opp. copia) rei frumentariae
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