infinitivus

== Latin == === Etymology === The adjective was formed by suffixation: īnfīnītus (“boundless”, “unlimited”, “infinite”: “endless”; “countless”; grammar “indefinite”, "infinitive”) +‎ -īvus (“suffix forming adjectives”); the noun is an elliptical use for modus īnfīnītīvus (“[the] infinitive mood”). The Latin is a rough translation of the Greek ἀπαρέμφατος, meaning "not indicated" or "not determined." === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ĩː.fiː.niːˈtiː.wʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iɱ.fi.niˈtiː.vus] === Adjective === īnfīnītīvus (feminine īnfīnītīva, neuter īnfīnītīvum); first/second-declension adjective unlimited, indefinite (grammar) infinitive ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== → Norwegian Bokmål: infinitiv === Noun === īnfīnītīvus m (genitive īnfīnītīvī); second declension (grammar) the infinitive (mood or mode) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== English: accusativus cum infinitivo === References === “infīnītīvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “infīnītīvus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 814/2.