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inferus
inferus
Latin
Adjective
īnferus m (feminine īnfera, neuter īnferum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | īnferus | īnfera | īnferum | īnferī | īnferae | īnfera | |
| genitive | īnferī | īnferae | īnferī | īnferōrum | īnferārum | īnferōrum | |
| dative | īnferō | īnferō | īnferīs | ||||
| accusative | īnferum | īnferam | īnferum | īnferōs | īnferās | īnfera | |
| ablative | īnferō | īnferā | īnferō | īnferīs | |||
| vocative | īnfere | īnfera | īnferum | īnferī | īnferae | īnfera | |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- inferus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- inferus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “inferus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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(ambiguous) the gods of the upper, lower world: superi; inferi
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(ambiguous) the world below: inferi (Orcus and Tartarus only poetical)
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(ambiguous) to descend to the world below: ad inferos descendere
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(ambiguous) to be in the lower world: apud inferos esse
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(ambiguous) to summon some one from the dead: aliquem ab inferis or a mortuis evocare, excitare (passive ab inferis exsistere)
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(ambiguous) the gods of the upper, lower world: superi; inferi