infaustus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

in-faustus, a, um, adj.,

unfortunate , unpropitious (poet. and post-Aug.): infaustas exurite puppes, Verg. A. 5, 635: nomen, id. ib. 7, 717: auspicium, id. ib. 11, 347: gradus, Ov. M. 3, 36: dies, Tac. H. 2, 91: castra, id. A. 1, 30.— Neutr. subst. : in-faustum , i, n., a misfortune : infausto Atheniensium, Plin. 16, 36, 66, § 169.—Adv.: infaustē , unfortunately (late Lat.), Cassiod. An. 12.

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