immensus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

im- +‎ mēnsus.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

immēnsus (feminine immēnsa, neuter immēnsum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. immeasurable, boundless, endless, vast, immense
    Synonyms: impēnsus, vāstus, ingēns, immānis

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative immēnsus immēnsa immēnsum immēnsī immēnsae immēnsa
Genitive immēnsī immēnsae immēnsī immēnsōrum immēnsārum immēnsōrum
Dative immēnsō immēnsō immēnsīs
Accusative immēnsum immēnsam immēnsum immēnsōs immēnsās immēnsa
Ablative immēnsō immēnsā immēnsō immēnsīs
Vocative immēnse immēnsa immēnsum immēnsī immēnsae immēnsa

Descendants
  • French: immense
  • Italian: immenso
  • Piedmontese: imens
  • Portuguese: imenso
  • Sicilian: mmenzu

References
  • “immensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “immensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • immensus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) abundance of material: infinita et immensa materia
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 377
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