invius

Latin

Etymology

From in- +‎ via +‎ -us.

Pronunciation

Adjective

invius (feminine invia, neuter invium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. impassable, inaccessible, impenetrable
  2. trackless, pathless, without a road or way through
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.151:
      Postquam altōs ventum in montīs atque invia lustra, [...].
      After they came to the mountain heights and pathless forest lairs [of prey], [...].

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative invius invia invium inviī inviae invia
genitive inviī inviae inviī inviōrum inviārum inviōrum
dative inviō inviae inviō inviīs
accusative invium inviam invium inviōs inviās invia
ablative inviō inviā inviō inviīs
vocative invie invia invium inviī inviae invia

References

  • “invius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “invius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "invius", 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)
  • invius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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