inefficax
Dictionary entries
- Entry →inefficax, inefficacis (gen.), inefficacior -or -us, inefficacissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
useless, ineffectual, unavailing, achieving nothing;; invalid (legal), inoperative; not potent/efficacious (remedies), ineffective;
acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (all)voc. sg. (all)
Examples
- L
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...philosophia quidem; nec ideo inutilis et formandis animis inefficax est. Quid autem? philosophia non vitae..." - L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...quidem, sed non explanabilis et perturbata et uerborum inefficax, ut lingua, sed deuincta nec in motus uarios soluta..." - M
VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...remedium accipere, non vicarium potest. adsedisset scilicet lectulo inefficax sedulitas et acceptis epistolis meis iuvenis filius nihil aliud..."