incommodus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin com-

Proto-Indo-European *med-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Italic *medos

Latin modus

Latin commodus

Latin incommodus

From in- + commodus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪŋˈkɔm.mɔ.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iŋˈkɔm.mo.dus]

Adjective

incommodus (feminine incommoda, neuter incommodum, superlative incommodissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. inconvenient, unsuitable, unfit, unseasonable

   Synonyms: inūtilis, ineptus, grātuītus, irritus

   Antonyms: opportūnus, commodus, habilis, aptus, idōneus, conveniēns, ūtilis, salūber, ūtēnsilis

2. troublesome, disagreeable

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	incommodus	incommoda	incommodum		incommodī	incommodae	incommoda
genitive	incommodī	incommodae	incommodī		incommodōrum	incommodārum	incommodōrum
dative	incommodō	incommodae	incommodō		incommodīs
accusative	incommodum	incommodam	incommodum		incommodōs	incommodās	incommoda
ablative	incommodō	incommodā	incommodō		incommodīs
vocative	incommode	incommoda	incommodum		incommodī	incommodae	incommoda

Derived terms

• incommoditās

Descendants

• Catalan: incòmode
• Galician: incómodo
• Occitan: incomòde
• Portuguese: incómodo
• Romanian: incomod
• Spanish: incómodo

References

• “incommodus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “incommodus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "incommodus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “incommodus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to inconvenience, injure a person: incommodo afficere aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) to relieve a difficulty: incommodis mederi
    
  • (ambiguous) much damage was done by this collision: ex eo navium concursu magnum incommodum est acceptum