infaustus

Latin

Etymology

From in (“without, not”) + faustus (“favorable, fortunate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈfau̯s.tus/, [ĩːˈfäu̯s̠t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈfau̯s.tus/, [iɱˈfäu̯st̪us]

Adjective

īnfaustus (feminine īnfausta, neuter īnfaustum); first/second-declension adjective

1. unfavorable, unfortunate, unpropitious, luckless, ill-fated, inauspicious, unlucky

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	īnfaustus	īnfausta	īnfaustum		īnfaustī	īnfaustae	īnfausta
Genitive	īnfaustī	īnfaustae	īnfaustī		īnfaustōrum	īnfaustārum	īnfaustōrum
Dative	īnfaustō		īnfaustō		īnfaustīs
Accusative	īnfaustum	īnfaustam	īnfaustum		īnfaustōs	īnfaustās	īnfausta
Ablative	īnfaustō	īnfaustā	īnfaustō		īnfaustīs
Vocative	īnfauste	īnfausta	īnfaustum		īnfaustī	īnfaustae	īnfausta

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “unfavorable, unfortunate”): faustus

Derived terms

• īnfaustē
• īnfaustum

Descendants

• → English: infaust
• → Italian: infausto
• → Spanish: infausto

References

• “infaustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “infaustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• infaustus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• infaustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • an evil omen; presage of ill: omen infaustum, triste