impexus

Latin

Etymology

From in- +‎ pexus.

Adjective

impexus (feminine impexa, neuter impexum); first/second-declension adjective

1. uncombed, unkempt, tangled
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 3.366–367:

     […] Stiriaque impexis induruit horrida barbis,
     Interea toto non setius aere ningit.

     […] hoarfrost clings to their uncombed, shaggy beards while the whole sky keeps on sheding snow.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	impexus	impexa	impexum		impexī	impexae	impexa
genitive	impexī	impexae	impexī		impexōrum	impexārum	impexōrum
dative	impexō	impexae	impexō		impexīs
accusative	impexum	impexam	impexum		impexōs	impexās	impexa
ablative	impexō	impexā	impexō		impexīs
vocative	impexe	impexa	impexum		impexī	impexae	impexa

References

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