inmensus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →inmensus, inmensa, inmensum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
immeasurable, immense/vast/boundless/unending; infinitely great; innumerable;
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...aliter Getica (si fas est credere) Phlegra armatum inmensus Briareus stetit aethera contra, hinc Phoebi pharetras, hinc toruae..."Germania
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...classibus advehebantur qui mutare sedes quaerebant, et inmensus ultra utque sic dixerim adversus Oceanus raris ab orbe nostro..."