See nefastus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"(of a day) on which judgment could not be pronounced or assemblies of the people be held"
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"english": "\"Whoever planted you that cursed day...\" (Horace, Ode II.13)",
"text": "Ille et nefasto te posuit die...",
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},
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"english": "\"What have we, in our impiety, left inviolate?\" (Horace, Ode I.35)",
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "nefāstae",
"links": [
[
"nefāstae",
"nefastae#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "nefāsta",
"links": [
[
"nefāsta",
"nefasta#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nefāstus"
},
"expansion": "nefāstus (feminine nefāsta, neuter nefāstum); first/second-declension adjective",
"name": "la-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nefāstus"
},
"name": "la-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"on which judgment could not be pronounced or assemblies of the people be held"
],
"links": [
[
"judgment",
"judgment"
],
[
"pronounced",
"pronounced"
],
[
"assemblies",
"assemblies"
],
[
"people",
"people"
],
[
"held",
"held"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(of a day) on which judgment could not be pronounced or assemblies of the people be held"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a day"
],
"tags": [
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"english": "\"Whoever planted you that cursed day...\" (Horace, Ode II.13)",
"text": "Ille et nefasto te posuit die...",
"translation": "\"Whoever planted you that cursed day...\" (Horace, Ode II.13)"
},
{
"english": "\"What have we, in our impiety, left inviolate?\" (Horace, Ode I.35)",
"text": "Quid intactum nefasti liquimus?",
"translation": "\"What have we, in our impiety, left inviolate?\" (Horace, Ode I.35)"
}
],
"glosses": [
"contrary to the sacred rites or to religion; irreligious, impious; wicked, profane, abandoned; unlucky, inauspicious; hurtful"
],
"links": [
[
"contrary",
"contrary"
],
[
"sacred",
"sacred"
],
[
"rites",
"rites"
],
[
"religion",
"religion"
],
[
"irreligious",
"irreligious"
],
[
"impious",
"impious"
],
[
"wicked",
"wicked"
],
[
"profane",
"profane"
],
[
"abandoned",
"abandoned"
],
[
"unlucky",
"unlucky"
],
[
"inauspicious",
"inauspicious"
],
[
"hurtful",
"hurtful"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) contrary to the sacred rites or to religion; irreligious, impious; wicked, profane, abandoned; unlucky, inauspicious; hurtful"
],
"tags": [
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2",
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[nɛˈfaːs.tʊs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[neˈfas.tus]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "nefastus"
}
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