Sunday, March 19, 2006
More Privative, Asyndetic Adjectives
Rev. Gerard Deighan writes via email:
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Particular thanks for your recent post on the asyndetic privative adjectives, which was most interesting. It brought back to me that ponderous, lumbering line of Vergil:Here are a few more Latin examples:
monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum (Aeneid 3:658)
I hadn't thought of in-gens as a privative formation before, but of course it is: 'that goes beyond its kind or species' (Lewis and Short, s.v.)
- Plautus, Bacchides 612: indomito incogitato
- Plautus, Bacchides 614: inamabilis inlepidus
- Plautus, Rudens 652: impudens impurus inverecundissimus
- Rhetorica ad Herennium 2.22.34: infinitae inmoderatae
- Velleius Paterculus 2.11.1: insatiabilis impotens
- Tacitus, Annals 14.26: intemeratus impollutus
- Pliny the Younger, Letters 9.10.3: inamabile inamoenum
- 6.404: unwearied, unobnoxious
- 10.254: impassable, impervious
