inexpertus

From in- + expertus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪ.nɛkˈspɛr.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [i.nekˈspɛr.tus]

inexpertus (feminine inexperta, neuter inexpertum); first/second-declension adjective

1. untried, not having tried, unused, unproven
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.414–415:

     [...] et supplex animōs submittere amōrī, / nē quid inexpertum frūstrā moritūra relinquat.

     [Dido] bows down her pride and submits to passion, [so as] not — having left anything untried — to die in vain.
     (The one appearance of the word in Virgil’s poetry.)

2. inexperienced in, unaccustomed to a thing

   Synonyms: hospes, imperītus

   Antonym: expertus

First/second-declension adjective.

• → Catalan: inexpert

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