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..."- P
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..."