ignarus

From in- (“un-”) + gnārus (“knowing”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪŋˈnaː.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iɲˈɲaː.rus]

ignārus (feminine ignāra, neuter ignārum, comparative ignārior, superlative ignārissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. ignorant, unaware, not knowing

   Synonyms: nescius, ignōrāns, īnscius, nesciēns, expers

   Antonyms: cōnsciēns, cognōscēns, cōnscius, scius, sciēns

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.198:

     “neque enim ignārī sumus ante malōrum”

     “neither indeed are we unaware of earlier misfortunes”

2. incapable, incompetent, unable

   Synonym: hospes

   Antonym: gnārus

First/second-declension adjective.

• French: ignare
• Galician: ignaro
• Italian: ignaro
  • → English: ignaro
• Portuguese: ignaro
• Spanish: ignaro

• ignarus in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• “ignarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ignarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ignarus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I know very well: non sum ignarus, nescius (not non sum inscius)
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 267
• Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.