Adjective
iners (genitive inertis, comparative inertior, superlative inertissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective
- without skill, unskilled, unskillful, incompetent, crude
- Synonyms: ineptus, rudis, indocilis, incapāx
- Antonyms: vafer, callidus
- inactive, lazy, idle, indolent, sluggish, inert; worthless; stagnant
- Synonyms: dēses, sēgnis, piger, ignāvus, socors, murcidus, languidus
- Antonyms: vīvus, strēnuus, impiger, alacer, ācer
- quiet, timid, tame, docile, spiritless, cowardly
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.158–159:
- [...] spūmantemque darī pecora inter inertia vōtīs
optat aprum, aut fulvum dēscendere monte leōnem.- [...] and that [Ascanius] — among such docile flocks — be given [an answer] to his prayers: [The boy] hopes for a foaming boar, or tawny lion to charge down the mountain.
(So far, the hunters have seen wild goats and deer; Ascanius, in his youthful enthusiasm, wants more challenging game.)
- (of food) without flavor, insipid
- Synonyms: īnsulsus, īnsipidus, fatuus
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
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Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “unskillful”): artifex
- (antonym(s) of “unskillful”): sollers
References
- “iners”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “iners”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- iners in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.