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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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invius (feminine invia, neuter invium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. impassable, inaccessible, impenetrable
  2. trackless, pathless, without a road or way through
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.151:
      Postquam altōs ventum in montīs atque invia lustra, [...].
      After they came to the mountain heights and pathless forest lairs [of prey], [...].

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative invius invia invium inviī inviae invia
Genitive inviī inviae inviī inviōrum inviārum inviōrum
Dative inviō inviō inviīs
Accusative invium inviam invium inviōs inviās invia
Ablative inviō inviā inviō inviīs
Vocative invie invia invium inviī inviae invia

References

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  • invius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • invius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • invius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • invius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.