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Adjective

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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

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First/second-declension adjective.

References

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  • 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.