"impius" meaning in Latin

See impius in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: [ˈɪm.pi.ʊs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈim.pi.us] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *pewH- Proto-Italic *pwījosder. Latin pius Latin impius From in- + pius. Etymology templates: {{ety|la|:af|in-<id:not>|pius|text=+|title=impius|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *pewH- Proto-Italic *pwījosder. Latin pius Latin impius [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*n̥-", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "in-", "lang" : "la" }, { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "to be clean", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*pewH-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*pwījos", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "pius", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "impius", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" }" data-lang="la" data-title="impius"> From in- + pius. Head templates: {{la-adj|impius|adv=impiē|comp=magis impius|sup=maximē impius/impiissimus/impīssimus/impientissimus}} impius (feminine impia, neuter impium, comparative magis impius, superlative maximē impius or impiissimus or impīssimus or impientissimus, adverb impiē); first/second-declension adjective Inflection templates: {{la-adecl|impius}} Forms: impia [feminine], impium [neuter], magis impius [comparative], maximē impius [superlative], impiissimus [superlative], impīssimus [superlative], impientissimus [superlative], impiē [adverb], no-table-tags [table-tags], impius [masculine, nominative, singular], impia [feminine, nominative, singular], impium [neuter, nominative, singular], impiī [masculine, nominative, plural], impiae [feminine, nominative, plural], impia [neuter, nominative, plural], impiī [genitive, masculine, singular], impiae [feminine, genitive, singular], impiī [genitive, neuter, singular], impiōrum [genitive, masculine, plural], impiārum [feminine, genitive, plural], impiōrum [genitive, neuter, plural], impiō [dative, masculine, singular], impiae [dative, feminine, singular], impiō [dative, neuter, singular], impiīs [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], impium [accusative, masculine, singular], impiam [accusative, feminine, singular], impium [accusative, neuter, singular], impiōs [accusative, masculine, plural], impiās [accusative, feminine, plural], impia [accusative, neuter, plural], impiō [ablative, masculine, singular], impiā [ablative, feminine, singular], impiō [ablative, neuter, singular], impiīs [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], impie [masculine, singular, vocative], impia [feminine, singular, vocative], impium [neuter, singular, vocative], impiī [masculine, plural, vocative], impiae [feminine, plural, vocative], impia [neuter, plural, vocative]
  1. disloyal, undutiful Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2
    Sense id: en-impius-la-adj-6P-uwo2n Categories (other): Latin entries with etymology texts, Latin entries with etymology trees, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin terms prefixed with in- (not), Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pages with etymology trees Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymology texts: 54 35 11 0 Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymology trees: 54 35 11 0 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 51 36 11 2 Disambiguation of Latin terms prefixed with in- (not): 44 24 27 5 Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 50 40 11 0 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 52 42 6 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 57 39 4 0 Disambiguation of Pages with etymology trees: 58 36 5 0
  2. godless, impious, unpatriotic Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2
    Sense id: en-impius-la-adj-RLCvJ6gv
  3. damned, accursed Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2
    Sense id: en-impius-la-adj-KoUJ8zCL Categories (other): Religion Disambiguation of Religion: 0 11 89 0
  4. wicked Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2
    Sense id: en-impius-la-adj-FIvT~buD
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: impiē, impietās, impiō

Inflected forms

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    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Pages with etymology trees",
    "la:Religion"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "impiē"
    },
    {
      "word": "impietās"
    },
    {
      "word": "impiō"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "impiu"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "impious"
    },
    {
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "impie"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "word": "impío"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "impio"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "empio"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "ímpio"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "impío"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": ":af",
        "3": "in-<id:not>",
        "4": "pius",
        "text": "+",
        "title": "impius",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *né\nProto-Indo-European *n̥-\nProto-Italic *n̥-\nLatin in-\nProto-Indo-European *pewH-\nProto-Italic *pwījosder.\nLatin pius\nLatin impius\n[Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Italic\", \"term\" : \"*n̥-\", \"lang\" : \"itc-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"in-\", \"lang\" : \"la\" }, { \"children\" : [ { \"keyword_abbrev\" : \"der.\", \"keyword_label\" : \"Derived from\", \"terms\" : [ { \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"to be clean\", \"children\" : [ ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*pewH-\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Italic\", \"term\" : \"*pwījos\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"itc-pro\" } ], \"keyword\" : \"derived\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"pius\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"la\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"is_group\" : true, \"keyword\" : \"affix\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"impius\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"la\" }\" data-lang=\"la\" data-title=\"impius\">\nFrom in- + pius.",
      "name": "ety"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *né\nProto-Indo-European *n̥-\nProto-Italic *n̥-\nLatin in-\nProto-Indo-European *pewH-\nProto-Italic *pwījosder.\nLatin pius\nLatin impius\nFrom in- + pius.",
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    {
      "form": "impia",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impium",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "magis impius",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maximē impius",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiissimus",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impīssimus",
      "links": [
        [
          "impīssimus",
          "impissimus"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impientissimus",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiē",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiē",
          "impie"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adverb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-adecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impius",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiī",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiī",
          "impii#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiī",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiī",
          "impii#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiī",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiī",
          "impii#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiōrum",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiōrum",
          "impiorum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiārum",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiārum",
          "impiarum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiōrum",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiōrum",
          "impiorum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiō",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiō",
          "impio#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiō",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiō",
          "impio#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiīs",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiīs",
          "impiis#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiōs",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiōs",
          "impios#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiās",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiās",
          "impias#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiō",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiō",
          "impio#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiā",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiā",
          "impia#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiō",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiō",
          "impio#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiīs",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiīs",
          "impiis#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impie",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiī",
      "links": [
        [
          "impiī",
          "impii#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impiae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "impia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "impius",
        "adv": "impiē",
        "comp": "magis impius",
        "sup": "maximē impius/impiissimus/impīssimus/impientissimus"
      },
      "expansion": "impius (feminine impia, neuter impium, comparative magis impius, superlative maximē impius or impiissimus or impīssimus or impientissimus, adverb impiē); first/second-declension adjective",
      "name": "la-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "impius"
      },
      "name": "la-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "“And the man’s weapons that he left hanging in our bedchamber — [so] disloyal! — and all his clothes, and the bridal bed on which I was ruined: pile [everything] on top [of the pyre].”\n(Dido alludes with disdain to the epic’s recurrent epithet for its hero — e.g.: “Sum pius Aeneas,” 1.378 — now that this so-called dutiful man has abandoned her.)",
          "ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.495–497",
          "roman": "quō periī: superimpōnās ….”",
          "text": "“… et arma virī thalamō quae fīxa relīquit\nimpius, exuviāsque omnīs, lectumque iugālem",
          "translation": "“And the man’s weapons that he left hanging in our bedchamber — [so] disloyal! — and all his clothes, and the bridal bed on which I was ruined: pile [everything] on top [of the pyre].”\n(Dido alludes with disdain to the epic’s recurrent epithet for its hero — e.g.: “Sum pius Aeneas,” 1.378 — now that this so-called dutiful man has abandoned her.)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "disloyal, undutiful"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "disloyal",
          "disloyal"
        ],
        [
          "undutiful",
          "undutiful"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "godless, impious, unpatriotic"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "godless",
          "godless"
        ],
        [
          "impious",
          "impious"
        ],
        [
          "unpatriotic",
          "unpatriotic"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "damned, accursed"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "damned",
          "damned"
        ],
        [
          "accursed",
          "accursed"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "As a roaring lion, and a hungry bear, so is a wicked prince over the poor people. (trans.: Douay-Rheims Bible)",
          "ref": "c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Proverbs.28.15",
          "text": "leō rugiēns et ursus ēsuriēns prīnceps impius super populum pauperem",
          "translation": "As a roaring lion, and a hungry bear, so is a wicked prince over the poor people. (trans.: Douay-Rheims Bible)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "wicked"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wicked",
          "wicked"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɪm.pi.ʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈim.pi.us]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "impius"
}

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