inops

Latin

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

inops (genitive inopis); third-declension one-termination adjective

helpless, destitute, indigent, poor
Synonyms: egens, pauper, exiguus

Antonyms: opulentus, opulens, dives, ditis, dis, locuples
deprived, lacking, needy (+ genitive or ab + ablative)
civitas inops consilii ― an irresolute city/ a city incapable to take an initiative
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.31.20:
  manum suam aperuit inopī et palmās suās extendit ad pauperem
  She hath opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her hands to the poor. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
(of inanimate things) mean, wretched, contemptible
weak
Synonyms: dēbilis, languidus, aeger, frāctus, īnfirmus, fessus, mollis, tenuis, obnoxius

Antonyms: praevalēns, fortis, potis, potēns, validus, strēnuus, compos

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter	masc./fem.	neuter
	singular		plural
nominative	inops		inopēs	inopia
genitive	inopis		inopium
dative	inopī		inopibus
accusative	inopem	inops	inopēs	inopia
ablative	inopī		inopibus
vocative	inops		inopēs	inopia

inopum is often the genitive plural.

“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
Félix Gaffiot (1934) “inops”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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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