ignavus

From in- + (g)nāvus.

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

ignāvus (feminine ignāva, neuter ignāvum, comparative ignāvior, superlative ignāvissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. lazy, slothful, inactive, sluggish

   Synonyms: dēses, iners, sēgnis, piger, socors, murcidus, languidus

   Antonyms: vīvus, strēnuus, impiger, alacer, ācer

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses XI.593:

     Est prope Cimmerios longo spelunca recessu,
     mons cavus, ignavi domus et penetralia Somni.

     Near the Cimmerians there is a cave with long recess,
     a hollow mountain, the home and sanctuary of sluggish Sleep.

2. unproductive, idle
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.434–435:

     [...] aut agmine factō
     ignāvum fūcōs pecus ā praesēpibus arcent

     […] or by banding as an army [the bees] drive the drones, an idle herd, from the hive

3. cowardly

First/second-declension adjective.

• īgnāvē
• īgnāvia

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