improvisus

Latin

Alternative forms

• inprōvīsus

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *pér

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *pró

Proto-Indo-European *pro-

Proto-Italic *pro-

Latin prō-

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *widtós

Proto-Italic *wissos

Latin vīsus

Latin prōvīsus

Latin imprōvīsus

From in- + prōvīsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪm.proːˈwiː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [im.proˈviː.s̬us]

Adjective

imprōvīsus (feminine imprōvīsa, neuter imprōvīsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. unforeseen, unexpected
2. sudden

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	imprōvīsus	imprōvīsa	imprōvīsum		imprōvīsī	imprōvīsae	imprōvīsa
genitive	imprōvīsī	imprōvīsae	imprōvīsī		imprōvīsōrum	imprōvīsārum	imprōvīsōrum
dative	imprōvīsō	imprōvīsae	imprōvīsō		imprōvīsīs
accusative	imprōvīsum	imprōvīsam	imprōvīsum		imprōvīsōs	imprōvīsās	imprōvīsa
ablative	imprōvīsō	imprōvīsā	imprōvīsō		imprōvīsīs
vocative	imprōvīse	imprōvīsa	imprōvīsum		imprōvīsī	imprōvīsae	imprōvīsa

Descendants

• Catalan: improvís
• Italian: improvviso
• Portuguese: improviso
• Spanish: improviso

References

• “improvisus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “improvisus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “improvisus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.