ineptia

== Latin == === Etymology === From ineptus (“silly, foolish, absurd”) +‎ -ia. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪˈnɛp.ti.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iˈnɛp.t͡si.a] === Noun === ineptia f (genitive ineptiae); first declension silliness, folly, absurdity ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== → French: ineptie → Italian: inezia === References === “ineptia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ineptia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ineptia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.