inviolate

English

Etymology

From Middle English inviolat, inviolate, from Latin inviolātus.[1][2] By surface analysis, in- (“not”) +‎ violate (adjective).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvaɪ.ə.lət/, /ɪnˈvaɪ.əʊˌleɪt/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Adjective

inviolate (comparative more inviolate, superlative most inviolate)

  1. Not violated; free from violation or hurt of any kind; secure against violation or impairment.
    Synonym: (obsolete) unviolate
    • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
      His fortune of arms was still inviolate.
    • 1987 February 8, Robert Storen, “On Being Cozy with Mister Right”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 29, page 12:
      A partner can also, hopefully, be trusted more fully than any other person in our lives. Our courts recognize this by refusing to allow a person to testify against his or her spouse. The sanctity of the home, by which they mean the couple, is inviolate.
  2. Incorruptible.

Translations

Translations

References

  1. ^ “inviolāt(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ “inviolate, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in.vi.oˈla.te/, /in.vjoˈla.te/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ate
  • Hyphenation: in‧vi‧o‧là‧te, in‧vio‧là‧te

Adjective

inviolate

  1. feminine plural of inviolato

References

  1. ^ violare in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

inviolāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of inviolātus

References

  • “inviolate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “inviolate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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