insons

From in- + sōns (“guilty”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈĩː.sõːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈin.sons]

īnsōns (genitive īnsontis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. innocent

   Synonyms: innoxius, castus, innocēns

   Antonyms: reus, obnoxius, noxius, cōnscius

   • c. 105–116, Tacitus, Ab excessu divi Augusti (Annales), volume IV, section XIII:

     Ac ni Aelius Lamia et L. Apronius qui Africam obtinuerant insontem protexissent, claritudine infausti generis et paternis adversis foret abstractus

     And if Aelius Lamia and L. Apronius who had governed Africa had not proclaimed him innocent, he would have been dragged down by the fame of his ill-fated house and the disasters of his father

2. harmless

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• → Italian: insonte
• → Portuguese: insonte
• → Spanish: insonte

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