ingens

== Latin == === Etymology === Traditionally from in- (“un-, not”) +‎ gens (“kind, family, race”); something that goes beyond what is natural for its kind. Sometimes linked to Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s, from an extended form of the oblique stem *m̥ǵh₂- ; this would make it cognate to magnus, Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas) and Sanskrit महत् (mahat) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɪŋ.ɡẽːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈin̠ʲ.d͡ʒens] === Adjective === ingēns (genitive ingentis, comparative ingentior, superlative ingentissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective huge, vast, enormous Synonyms: impēnsus, immēnsus, vāstus, immānis immoderate, exorbitant extraordinary, unnatural (figuratively) mighty, powerful Synonyms: praevalēns, fortis, potis, potēns, validus, strēnuus, firmus, compos Antonyms: dēbilis, languidus, aeger, fractus, tenuis, īnfirmus, inops ==== Declension ==== Third-declension one-termination adjective. The ablative singular also appears as ingente. ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: ingent → Italian: ingente → Sicilian: ncenti → Spanish: ingente → Translingual: Ingentia === References === “ingens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ingens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ingens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.