imperitus

• inperītus

From in- +‎ perītus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪm.pɛˈriː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [im.peˈriː.tus]

imperītus (feminine imperīta, neuter imperītum, comparative imperītior, superlative imperītissimus, adverb imperītē); first/second-declension adjective

1. unskilled

   Synonyms: rudis, iners, inexpertus, ignārus, hospes

   Antonyms: expertus, perītus, gnarus, doctus, callidus, instructus, cōnsultus, magister

2. unfamiliar, ignorant of, unacquainted with, inexperienced

   Synonyms: hospes, inexpertus

   Antonym: expertus

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 4.24:

     Quibus rēbus nostrī perterritī, atque hūius omnīnō generis pūgnae imperītī, nōn eādem alacritāte āc studiō quō in pedestribus ūtī proeliīs cōnsuērant utēbantur.

     Our [soldiers], terrified by these circumstances, and entirely unfamiliar with this type of fighting, were not exerting the same vigor and eagerness that they typically applied in infantry battles.

First/second-declension adjective.

• → Italian: imperito
• → Sicilian: mpiritu
• → Spanish: imperito

• “imperitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “imperitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “imperitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have had no experience of the world: (rerum) imperitum esse